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 June.

Protesters clash with police during demonstrations against the government of President Guillermo Lasso and rising fuel prices in Quito, Ecuador, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Soldiers detain a demonstrator during protests against the government of President Guillermo Lasso and rising fuel prices in Quito, Ecuador, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Indigenous protesters arrive in Quito, Ecuador, Sunday, June 19, 2022, to demonstrate against the economic policies of the government of President Guillermo Lasso. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Magdalena Tepaz, mother of Wilmer Tulul, cries as she waits for a meeting to arrange the repatriation of her son's remains, outside the Foreign Ministry in Guatemala City, Thursday, June 30, 2022. Wilmer and his cousin Pascual Melvin Guachiac, both 13, were among the more than 50 migrants who were found dead inside a tractor-trailer on June 27, on the edge of San Antonio, Texas. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Women light candles during a march marking the 7th anniversary of the Ni Una Menos, or Not One Less, women's movement, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, June 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Confetti showers supporters at the election night headquarters of Gustavo Petro presidential candidate, in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, June 19, 2022. Colombia will be governed by a leftist president for the first time after Petro narrowly defeated a real estate tycoon in a runoff election. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

A transgender poses for a selfie on the pedestal of a monument in the annual Pride march in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, June 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Biologists Gabriela Santos, left and Tatiana, collect seahorses in the waters of Urca beach as part of a project run by the Santa Ursula University, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, June 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Pet owners take part in a dog-a-thon, in La Paz, Bolivia, Sunday, June 19, 2022. Bolivian police hosted a Perroton or dog-a-thon as part of the National Police Month events promoting the prevention of cruelty to animals. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

A horse pulls a buggy with passengers through a street flooded by heavy rains, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, June 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Maria, who works as a seamstress, sells handmade crochet rags as she sits outside her home, alongside others built on squatted land in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, June 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Boys say a prayer before digging into their free lunch donated by the New Birth's Christian church, in the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Migrants, many from Central American and Venezuela, walk along the Huehuetan highway in Chiapas state, Mexico, early Tuesday, June 7, 2022, as part of a caravan aiming to reach the United States. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Cable cars that interconnect the city of El Alto and La Paz, Bolivia, backdropped by the strawberry moon, ride high above El Alto, Bolivia, Thursday, June 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Federal police officers load body bags with recovered human remains onto a police vehicle after being found during a search for Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira of Brazil and freelance reporter Dom Phillips of Britain, in Atalaia do Norte, Amazonas state, Brazil, Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Brazilian police said a fisherman confessed to killing Phillips and Pereira in the remote Amazon, ending more than a week of searching as he led officers deep into the forest to where he buried their bodies. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

A boy balances on a piece of rebar as he prepares to jump into a ditch that drains water from an abandoned highway tunnel in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A South African white lion rests in a quarantine cage after it was brought from the Czech Republic to the Caricuao Zoo of Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, June 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Women hold a portrait of Jesuit priest Javier Campos Morales as the funeral procession of Morales and fellow priest Joaquin Cesar Mora Salazar arrives to Cerocahui, Chihuahua state, Mexico, Sunday, June 26, 2022. The two elderly priests killed in the remote mountains of northern Mexico were buried in the lawn of the church where a gunman attacked them. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

Residents dance during the San Juan Bautista celebrations in Curiepe, Venezuela, Thursday, June 23, 2022. The celebration commemorates the birth of St. John the Baptist and according to local lore the festival is the time when enslaved African Americans were allowed to rest for three days in observance of the annual June 24th feast. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Fans cheer in the stands prior to a Copa Sudamericana soccer match between Uruguay's Nacional and Argentina's Union de Santa Fe at Gran Parque Central stadium in Montevideo, Uruguay, Tuesday, June 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

Wearing an Aztec headdress and smoking a cigarette, a participant poses for a selfie while taking part in the annual Pride march in Mexico City, Saturday, June 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

A dog waits to be fed table scraps in the doorway of a soup kitchen run by the Frente de Organizaciones en Lucha, FOL, social organization, as free lunches cool down before they are delivered to poverty stricken families in the "El Peligro" neighborhood, south of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, May 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

This gallery was curated by AP photojournalist Silvia Izquierdo in Rio Janeiro.

Lead photo: A woman performs during a demonstration marking the seventh anniversary of the women’s movement “Ni Una Menos, “ or Not One Less, in Montevideo, Uruguay, Friday, June 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

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