Latin America & Caribbean in Review
This monthly gallery features some of the top photojournalism made by Associated Press photographers documenting Latin America and the Caribbean during the month of July.
Children play on a street covered by the Spanish phrase “Put your heart into Cuba” in Havana, Cuba, Monday, July 26, 2021 (AP Photo/Eliana Aponte)
A person’s hair gets blown around as they walk on the sea wall in Montevideo, Uruguay,Sunday, July 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)
A homeless person sits by a fire amid historically cold weather in Sao Paulo, Brazil, late Thursday, July 29, 2021. The Brazilian government's meteorological institute says low temperatures should endure until the start of August. (AP Photo/Marcelo Chello)
A resident holds a frame with the Spanish message: "I was vaccinated against COVID-19," as he poses for a photo during a vaccination campaign for the Uru Chipaya Indigenous community in Chipaya, Bolivia, Friday, July 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
A passenger in protective gear amid the COVID-19 pandemic sleeps on a flight from Buenos Aires to Frankfurt, Germany, Sunday, July 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A picture of late Haitian President Jovenel Moise hangs on the wall of his former residence, behind interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph giving a press conference in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Authorities in Haiti forcefully pushed back against reports that current government officials were involved in the July 7 killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, calling them “a lie.” (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)
Police carry the coffin of slain Haitian President Jovenel Moise at the start of the funeral at his family home in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, early Friday, July 23, 2021. Moise was assassinated at his home in Port-au-Prince on July 7. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
A man grieves during the funeral of slain Haitian President Jovenel Moise, at Moise's family home in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, Friday, July 23, 2021. Moise was assassinated at his home in Port-au-Prince on July 7. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Two suspects in the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moise are moved to be displayed to the media at the General Direction of the police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, July 8, 2021. Moise was assassinated in an attack on his private residence overnight. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)
An alien-shaped kite flies overhead at the Astronomy Festival in Villa de Leyva, Colombia, Saturday, July 31, 2021. Astronomers celebrate the 60th anniversary of the arrival of the first man in outer space. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Peruvian President Pedro Castillo arrives to a symbolic swearing-in ceremony at the site of the 1824 Battle of Ayacucho, which sealed independence from Spain, at the Pampa de la Quinua as part of Peru´s bicentennial celebrations in Ayacucho, Peru, Thursday, July 29, 2021, the day after he was officially sworn in. (AP Photo/Ernesto Arias)
Teammates lift Argentina's Lionel Messi after their 1-0 victory over Brazil during the Copa America final soccer match at Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, July 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
A boy submerges himself to cool down at the site of a broken water main at a street in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
A Haitian migrant carries a baby to a boat that will take them to Capurgana, on the border with Panama, from Necocli, Colombia, early Thursday, July 29, 2021. Migrants have been gathering in Necocli as they move north towards Panama on their way to the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Brothers Lucas, 7, left, and Josias, 9, pose for a portrait wearing their feathered costumes during the feast of St. Francis Solano in Emboscada, Paraguay, Saturday, July 24, 2021. According their mother they are taking part in the festivities to honor a promise she made to the 16th century Spanish patron saint for their good health amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
A woman fires a homemade mortar during commemorations for the 42nd anniversary of the triumph of the 1979 Sandinista Revolution that toppled dictator Anastasio Somoza in Managua, Nicaragua, late Sunday, July 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Miguel Andrés)
Women block the Inter American Highway in Totonicapan, Guatemala, after Indigenous leaders called for a nationwide strike to pressure Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei to resign, Thursday, July 29, 2021. The protest comes in response to the firing of Special Prosecutor Against Impunity Juan Francisco Sandoval by Attorney General Consuelo Porras. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Honduran migrant Christian Fragoso shaves at a migrant camp near El Chaparral pedestrian border bridge in Tijuana, Mexico, Friday, July 2, 2021. The migrant camp of about 2,000 asylum-seekers, mostly families, blocks a pedestrian entrance to the US border crossing with San Diego. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)
A girl with Cuban and Bolivian colors painted on her face takes part a march in support of the Cuban government, near the U.S. embassy in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, July 14, 2021. The march came about after a rare weekend of protests against the communist regime in the island nation. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Plainclothes police detain an anti-government protester during a demonstration over high prices, food shortages and power outages, while some people also called for a change in the government, in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, July 11, 2021. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel for the first time is offering some self-criticism while saying that government shortcomings in handling shortages and other problems played a role in this week’s protests. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Women visit as they wait for a shot of the COVID-19 vaccine in Pillaro, Ecuador, Thursday, July 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
A girl walks near a street photographer’s wooden horses at the Plaza de Armas in downtown Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, July 20, 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The capital is moving into phase three, ending weekend quarantines and allowing more people inside restaurants and gyms as the city relaxes its lockdown rules. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
An Argentine flag wraps a cross at a gravesite in the COVID-19 section of the Chacarita cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Argentina is close to reaching 100,000 virus-related deaths. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
Friar Leopoldo Serrano celebrates Mass, broadcast via Facebook, at a chapel in Mission San Francisco de Asis, Honduras, late Saturday, June 19, 2021. Located on the border of the departments of Santa Barbara and Copan, his sprawling mission straddles the road that is one of the region's main drug trafficking corridors. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A health worker records the information of patients who died of complications related to COVID-19 at Regional Hospital in Zipaquira, Colombia, Monday, June 28, 2021. Colombia became a pandemic hotspot as it experiences a third wave of COVID-19 infections and a surge in deaths. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Biologist Rodrigo Freitas captures a broad-snouted caiman in the Marapendi Lagoon in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, July 16, 2021. Thousands of caimans living in lagoons adjacent to what was once the Olympic Golf Course are closely monitored by scientists, who hope to protect their numbers and encourage local residents to be environmentally conscious about living next to the scaly creatures. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
People are evicted from land designated for a Petrobras refinery, at a settlement coined the "First of May Refugee Camp," referring to the date people moved here and set up tents and shacks to live in during the new coronavirus pandemic in Itaguai, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Thursday, July 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Yoga enthusiasts gather on the Samalayuca Dunes near Ciudad Juarez, Mexico for the 6th annual “Yoga in the Dunes” event, Saturday, July 3, 2021. Yoga studio organizers said this year’s event was held as a symbol of hope for those who have survived the pandemic and to honor those who have died from the virus. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
Edited by Ariana Cubillos, AP photojournalist based in Caracas, Venezuela.