Latin America and 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 February.

A man carries a dog away from a residential area destroyed by mudslides in Petropolis, Brazil, Feb. 16, 2022. Extremely heavy rains set off mudslides and floods in the mountainous area of Petropolis, killing over 200 people. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Rescue workers remove the body of a mudslide victim on the third day of rescue efforts in Petropolis, Brazil, Feb. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

A woman embraces a youth after fatal mudslides in Petropolis, Brazil, Feb. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

The shadow of a crew member is cast on a hot air balloon during the Cumbres Balloon Festival at El Trapiche Park on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile, Feb. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

A man in a gorilla costume smokes before the start of a Carnival parade in Colonia Tovar, Venezuela, Feb. 26, 2022. People poured onto the streets of this German-founded village to enjoy a parade of people dressed as harlequin-like figures and as gorillas. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Fans do the wave during a FIBA Americas qualifier game between Cuba and Mexico for the 2023 Basketball World Cup in Havana, Cuba, Feb. 24, 2022. Mexico defeated Cuba 82 - 72. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A white pelican takes flight on Lake Chapala in Petatan, Mexico, Feb. 5, 2022. The pelicanos borregones come to Mexico every year to escape the bitter cold of the north, flying from Canada and the U.S. to the warmer climate in Michoacan state. (AP Photo/Armando Solis)

An injured Palmeiras soccer fan is carried after clashes that broke out while fans watched a live broadcast, from Abu Dhabi, of their team’s FIFA Club World Cup final soccer match against Chelsea, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Feb. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Marcelo Chello)

Archaeologists work at the site where six mummies of children from 800-1200 AD were found in Cajamarquilla, near Lima, Peru, Feb. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

A hippo swims in the Magdalena River in Puerto Triunfo, Colombia, Feb. 16, 2022. Colombia's Environment Ministry announced in early Feb. that hippos are an invasive species, in response to a lawsuit against the government over whether to kill or sterilize the hippos that were imported illegally by the late drug lord Pablo Escobar, and whose numbers are growing at a fast pace and pose a threat to biodiversity. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Women help display a Ukrainian flag as they protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb. 25, 2022. (AP Photo'/Natacha Pisarenko)

Juan Martin Del Potro lays his head band on the net after losing to Federico Delbonis at an Argentina Open tennis match in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb. 8, 2022. Del Potro says he is likely to soon retire from professional tennis. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

Mannequins are covered with plastic bags to protect them from the rain during Carnival celebrations in La Guaira, Venezuela, Feb. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Abortion-rights activists celebrate after the Constitutional Court approved the decriminalization of abortion, lifting all limitations on the procedure until the 24th week of pregnancy, in Bogota, Colombia, Feb. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Debris blankets the floor in a partially collapsed San Juan Bautista church, triggered by an overnight 6.2-magnitude earthquake in Amatitlan, Guatemala, Feb. 16, 2022. The Guatemalan emergency agency CONRED reported structural damage in at least seven departments of the country and no fatalities. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

A woman grieves after learning her brother died from consuming toxic cocaine outside the Bocalandro Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb. 4, 2022. A batch of cocaine that appears to have been laced with a synthetic opioid killed 24 people and hospitalized almost 100 others. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A fire consumes a forest near La Cruz, Argentina, Feb. 18, 2022. Fires ravaged over half-a-million hectares. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A chained prisoner lies on a bed at the General Hospital during a strike by hospital workers demanding better working conditions in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Juan Alfonso, left, kisses his partner Miguel Angel during a symbolic gay wedding ceremony, organized by Peru's LGBT community to promote same-sex marriage, ahead of the feast of Saint Valentine in Lima, Feb. 12, 2022. Same-sex marriage is not legal in Peru. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

A man lies dead in the street after he was killed during a police operation against alleged drug traffickers in the Vila Cruzeiro favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Feb. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Maka Indigenous people dance during the annual celebration marking the founding of Qemkuket, a town near Puerto Falcon, Paraguay, Feb. 14, 2022. The Maka, originally from the Chaco Region, are celebrating their town's 37th anniversary. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Alejandro Lopez, part of a collective of relatives who search for disappeared people, sifts through dirt taken from a clandestine grave in a field on the outskirts of Ciudad Mante, Mexico, Feb. 1, 2022. Most extermination sites in Mexico have been found by family members who follow up leads themselves with or without the support and protection of authorities. Such search groups exist in nearly every state. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Members of the “Forcados Amadores de Mexico" are toppled by a bull during a bullfight at La Plaza de Toros Mexico in Mexico City, Feb. 20, 2022. This season's bullfights may be the last, as legislators in the capital seek to revive a bill banning it. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

A line on a wall marks the level at which mud reached inside a home a day after a rain-weakened hillside collapsed and brought waves of mud over homes and a sports field in the La Gasca neighborhood of Quito, Ecuador, Feb. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

A woman cries during the Liberation and Healing Mass at the Institute of Mary Mystical Rose in Sao Sebastian, a rural area of Brasilia, Brazil, Feb. 27, 2022. Hundreds attended the event seeking comfort for their afflictions. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

A woman kisses a pigeon during a ritual for the African sea goddess Yemanja on the beach in Montevideo, Uruguay, Feb. 2, 2022. Worshippers gather at the beach on her feast day, bringing candles, flowers, honey and fruit to honor her. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

A bee feeds on a honeycomb at a beekeeper's farm in Colina, on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile, Jan. 17, 2021. A drought has gripped Chile for 13 years and the flowers that feed honeybees in central Chile have grown increasingly scarce. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Brandon, the son of beekeeper Carlos Peralta, loads beehives on a truck to be relocated further south due to a drought in Colina on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile, Monday, Jan. 31, 2022. Chilean beekeepers face a shortage of flowers to feed their bees due to a severe drought that has lasted more than a decade. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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Lead photo: Dancers perform the traditional "Diablada," Dance of the Devils, during Carnival in Oruro, Bolivia, Feb. 26, 2022. The festival is one of the country's largest tourist attractions and registered on the UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

This gallery was edited by AP photojournalist Jorge Saenz in Asuncion, Paraguay.