Latin America and the 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 October.

A protester carries a piece of wood simulating a weapon during a protest demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, in the Petion-Ville area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

People walk on a pedestrian bridge emblazoned with the Portuguese word for democracy, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Men detained under the "state of exception" are transported to a detention center in a cargo truck, in Soyapango, El Salvador, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. The arrests under the "state of exception" of more than 55,000 people have swamped an already overwhelmed criminal justice system, and some defendants arrested on the thinnest of suspicions are dying in prison before any authority looks closely at their cases, according to a network of non-governmental organizations trying to track them. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva shakes hands with a supporter as he campaigns a day ahead of the country's general election, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

A supporter of incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro reacts to results after polls closed in a presidential run-off election, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. Brazil's electoral authority announced that former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defeated Bolsonaro to become the country's next president. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Ecuadorian migrants walk across the Darien Gap from Colombia into Panama hoping to reach the U.S., Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

A youth suffering cholera symptoms is helped upon arrival at a clinic run by Doctors Without Borders in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. For the first time in three years, people in Haiti have been dying of cholera, raising concerns about a potentially fast-spreading scenario and reviving memories of an epidemic that killed nearly 10,000 people a decade ago. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

"Cargadores" or carriers, shoulder a religious float supporting The Lord of Miracles religious icon during a procession marking the the nation's patron saint feast day in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Jose Medina jumps out his home flooded by the overflow of a ravine caused by intense rains in Las Tejerias, Venezuela, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Spanish singer Leiva performs at the Metropolitan Theater in Mexico City, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022.  (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Fans celebrate with a cardboard cutout of Red Bull driver, Mexican Sergio Perez, at the end of the Formula One Mexico Grand Prix at the Hermanos Rodriguez racetrack in Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. Perez placed third. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

An Iranian national raises his hand marked with theFarsi word for “liberty," during a protest against the death of Iranian Mahsa Amini, in front of the Universidad de Chile building in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. The 22-year-old, who died in Iran while in police custody, was arrested by Iran's morality police for allegedly violating its strictly-enforced dress code. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Liusba Grajales, left, puts makeup on her daughter Ainhoa as her partner Lisset Diaz Vallejo gets ready for their wedding ceremony, in Santa Clara, Cuba, Friday, Oct. 21, 2022. The couple, which has been together for seven years, is one of the first to make the decision to get legally married in Cuba following the new Family Code, which opened up everything from equal marriage to surrogate mothers. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)

An agricultural machine plant soybeans on a farm in a rural area of Sidrolandia, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

A musician plays during the Our Lady of the Rosary festival in the Andean village of Huarina, Bolivia, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

A whale carcass is towed away from the shore near Puerto Madryn, Argentina, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Maxi Jonas)

Haiti Protest

Police confront protesters in front of the Canadian embassy during a protest to reject an international military force requested by the government in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A boy wearing a ghost costume walks past soccer players while trick-or-treating in Panama City, Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

Flamengo soccer fans see their team off as the players arrive by bus to the international airport to fly to Ecuador for the Copa Libertadores final, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

A wooden statue of a condor stands under the stars at the entrance of the base of the Andean Condor Conservation Program in Sierra Paileman in the Rio Negro province of Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. For 30 years the Andean Condor Conservation Program has hatched chicks in captivity, rehabilitated others and freed them across South America. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Fans of Gimnasia de La Plata take to the pitch after tear gas flooded the stadium during a local tournament soccer match between Gimnasia de La Plata and Boca Juniors in La Plata, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

A protester holding up a skull and seashell shouts for the resignation of Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry in the street in the Champs de Mars area where the prime minister attended a ceremony marking the death anniversary of revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Blooming flowers cover the Atacama desert near Copiapo, Chile, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. The phenomenon typically only happens every five to seven years when rare heavy rains cause flowers to bloom. (AP Photo/Matias Basualdo)

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva votes in a run-off presidential election in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. Da Silva went onto to be elected as the country’s leader. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Enderson Mendoza cleans a fishing net as he and others fish for shrimp in Lake Maracaibo near Cabimas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

A teacher dries out books at a school that was heavily damaged by Hurricane Ian in La Coloma, in the province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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Lead photo: A woman dressed as Mexico's iconic "Catrina" poses for tourists in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, as part of the Day of the Dead festivities in Mexico City, Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

This gallery was edited by AP photojournalist Esteban Felix in Santiago, Chile.

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