This monthly gallery features some of the top photojournalism made by Associated Press photographers documenting Latin America and the Caribbean during the month of August.

Lead photo: A girl plays inside a classroom where her family is staying at a school turned into a shelter for those displaced by the 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, Aug. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Edited by Ramon Espinosa, AP photojournalist based in Havana, Cuba.

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