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 April.

A Carnival reveler dances at a street party, or “bloco,” as part of a protest against Carnival restrictions by city officials in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 13, 2022. City Hall banned Carnival street parties due to the pandemic. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

A battered Peruvian flag flies from the roof of a soup kitchen in the Villa Maria neighborhood of Lima, Peru, April 12, 2022. Soup kitchens are on the rise as a lifeline as global spikes in food and fuel prices are proving a double whammy for Peru. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Ring-tailed lemurs sit on the hood of a truck while searching for snacks in an Easter egg at the Buin Zoo in Santiago, Chile, April 17, 2021. The zoo gave some of its animals ostrich Easter eggs painted with non-toxic tempera and filled with the particular diet of each species. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Oscar Mendez of Colombia's Independiente Medellin celebrates after teammate Adrian Arregui scored their side's second goal against Paraguay's Guairena FC at a Copa Sudamericana soccer match in Asuncion, Paraguay, April 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Candles illuminate crosses on a field during an event to remember Argentine soldiers who died in the Falklands War, also known as the Malvinas War, on the 40th anniversary of the conflict over the remote South Atlantic archipelago with Britain, in Pilar, Argentina, April 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A “gaucho,” or cowboy, falls from a horse during Criolla Week rodeo in Montevideo, Uruguay, Thursday, April 14, 2022. Since 1925, the festival brings cowboys to the capital who tame and ride wild horses. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

Crabs cross a road in Giron, Cuba, April 10, 2022. Millions of crabs emerge at the start of Spring rain and start a journey to the Bay of Pigs to spawn in a yearly migration. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Mexican golfer Carlos Ortiz stands on the 13th hole during the Mexico Open at Vidanta in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, April 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

A reveler dances in the "Cordão do Boitata" parade during the traditional Black culture carnival event "Feira das Yabas" in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez is taken in handcuffs to an aircraft as he is extradited to the U.S. where he faces drug trafficking and weapons charges, at an Air Force base in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, April 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Elmer Martinez)

An Indigenous man, his face painted with red ink representing spilled Indigenous blood and clay representing gold, protests the increase of mining activities that are encroaching on his land, outside the Mines and Energy Ministry in Brasilia, Brazil, April 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

University students and police clash after an event commemorating the previous year's strike against a government-proposed tax reform that turned violent in Bogota, Colombia, April 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Hooded penitents known as "cucuruchos" pose for a photo in the San Francisco church as they wait for the start of the Jesus of Great Power procession in Quito, Ecuador, April 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

People ride a swing carousel at the Ceremonia music festival in Mexico City, April 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

The remains of former Colombian soccer star Freddy Rincon is transported on a fire truck from the city’s airport to the sports coliseum after arriving to his native Buenaventura, Colombia, April 14, 2022. Rincon, a former captain of the Colombian national soccer team who played in three World Cups, died following a traffic accident. He was 55. (AP Photo/Oswaldo Paez)

An effigy representing Judas Iscariot and COVID-19 burns as a dog tries to bite it in the San Agustin neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, April 17, 2022. The burning of Judas is an Easter-time ritual where an effigy of Judas Iscariot is hanged on Good Friday, then burned on Easter Sunday. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

People look at the instrument panel of a small plane that crashed in the community of Carrefour, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 20, 2022. Police report that the plane was headed to the southern coastal city of Jacmel when it tried to land in Carrefour and that at least 5 people died in the accident. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

A member of the Nazarene brotherhood eyes the camera from behind her “capirote” head covering at a Good Friday procession in Zipaquira, Colombia, April 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Argentina's Agustina Imaz, left, and Lilian Lequeira from the U.S., compete in the Women's Polo World Championship final match in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 16, 2022. Argentina won 6-2. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A dancer in Cuba's National Ballet stretches before rehearsing at the ballet's school in Havana, Cuba, April 5, 2022. The National Ballet of Cuba starts rehearsal to return to the stage after more than a year following the COVID-19 pandemic shut down. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Children walk behind concertina wire as soldiers patrol the entrances of the San Jose del Pino Community in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, April 6, 2022, during a crackdown on gangs. Congress authorized prison sentences of 10 to 15 years for news media that reproduce or disseminate messages from the gangs, alarming press freedom groups. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Police dog "Corporal Oliveira", wears a police uniform as looks out from a patrol car at the 17 Military Police Battalion's station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 7, 2022. The dog, which is used for social campaigns by the police like flu vaccinations, was adopted as a pet by the battalion when it was a stray, injured puppy that approached the station. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

A representation of the folk saint Maximon is surrounded by members of the Santa Cruz brotherhood at their chapel in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, April 13, 2022. Maximon followers take part in a procession in his honor, also known as Rilaj Maam, venerated by Mayan Indigenous communities in the highlands of Western Guatemala during Holy Week. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

A performer from the Salgueiro samba school parades during Carnival at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

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Lead photo: Actors re-enact Jesus’ crucifixion during a Way of the Cross procession on the Catholic holiday of Good Friday in Colina, Chile, April 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Edited by AP photographer Moises Castillo, based in Guatemala City.

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