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 September.

A couple sits in a Volkswagen beetle decorated with the image of Argentina soccer star Lionel Messi and coach Lionel Scaloni, outside the Argentina Soccer Association in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Storm clouds gather over cargo ships are anchored on Atlantic side of the Panama Canal as they wait to navigate through the canal, near Colon, Panama, Sept. 4, 2023. Authorities limited in August the number of ships passing through the canal in due to a lack of rainfall. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

A child takes part in an act to mark the 2000th day since the murder of Councilwoman Marielle Franco and her driver, Anderson Gomes, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

A home leans in on itself after a deadly cyclone in Roca Sales, Brazil, Sept. 7, 2023. Flooding from a cyclone washed away homes and trapped motorists. (AP Photo/Wesley Santos)

Nelly Meave poses for a photo after being crowned Elderly Spring Queen by the Association of Older Adult in La Paz, Bolivia, Sept. 21, 2023. Members of the association, who meet weekly for events, said that Meave, who is known as Nelly the First, was elected this year for her solidarity and friendliness. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Musicians and dancers known as The Red Devils of Victor Jara dance inside a tunnel of the National Stadium, which was a detention center in the early years of the military dictatorship, during a vigil marking the 50th anniversary of the 1973 military coup that toppled the government of late President Salvador Allende in Santiago, Chile, Sept. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Presidential hopeful of the Liberty Advances coalition Javier Milei holds a giant cardboard U.S. dollar bill with his face on it at a campaign rally in La Plata, Argentina, Sept. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A boat navigates through a section of the Amazon River during a drought in the state of Amazonas, near Manacapuru, Brazil, Sept. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

Family members of inmates watch soldiers raid the Penitentiary Center in Tocorón, Venezuela, Sept. 20, 2023. Soldiers carried out the raid to dismantle a criminal gang, according to authorities. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Soldiers in face paint wait for the start of the annual Independence Day military parade at the Zocalo in Mexico City, Sept. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

A family prepares a pig for market in Quito, Ecuador, Sept. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Ileana Grahanda poses for a photo during an abortion-rights demonstration on the Day for the Decriminalization of Abortion in Mexico City, Sept. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexa Herrera)

Youths cool off in the bay of Asuncion, Paraguay, Sept. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Male humpback whales compete for a female in the waters of Bahía Solano, Colombia, Aug. 29, 2023. Every year the Colombian population of Bahía Solano welcomes humpback whales and a great number of tourists who arrive for a chance to watch them as they pass through the Pacific. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Artist Sergio Díaz holds up a piece of his money art featuring a U.S. dollar and an Argentine 500-peso note with former U.S. President George Washington holding a rifle alongside a dead jaguar, at his studio in Salta, Argentina, Sept. 9, 2023. As millions of Argentines express dismay and anger over the rapid depreciation of the local currency, a group of artists is seeking to show the economic damage through their artwork. (AP Photo/Javier Corbalan)

A worker extinguishes a smoldering fire in what is left of a spare parts warehouse after a deadly car bomb exploded behind a nearby police station in Timba, Cauca, Colombia, Sept. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Andres Quintero)

A spider monkey opens its mouth as frozen fruit is served at the BioParque do Rio amid a heat wave in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

A homeless person sleeps on a bed made of a shopping cart and bench on a sidewalk decorated with Argentine flags in Buenos Aires, Argentina, early Sept. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Agents from the Attorney General's office raid an electoral facility in Guatemala City, Sept. 12, 2023. President-elect Bernardo Arévalo said he was temporarily suspending the transition process following the raids during which government agents opened boxes of votes and photographed their contents in what experts called an unprecedented violation of the law. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Indigenous people watch a television screen showing the Supreme Court getting ready to decide on whether to overturn or maintain a ruling on the legality of boundaries for Indigenous lands, and whether Indigenous people can claim their right to be on some protected areas, in Brasilia, Brazil, Sept. 20, 2023. The Supreme Court ruled to enshrine Indigenous land rights in a decision that removed the imminent threat to protections being rolled back. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Protesters are hit by a police water cannon during clashes at a march marking the 50th anniversary of a military coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet in Santiago, Chile, Sept. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)

A girl plays in the light projection of a rooster during nighttime recreational events in the Chacao neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Sept. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Piers stretch out over what was once the shore at Lake Titicaca in Huatajata, Bolivia, Sept. 29, 2023. Due to the lowering water levels, the piers are made longer to reach the water. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

A portrait of former Argentina dictator Rafael Videla is projected on a window of the Argentine Navy School of Mechanics Museum and Site of Memory (ESMA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept. 19, 2023. The ESMA, which was used as an illegal detention and torture center during Argentina's last military dictatorship, has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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Lead photo: A Venezuelan migrant laughs as she jokes with her husband, who gave her a few flowers he picked in the grass, as they wait along the rail lines in hopes of boarding a freight train heading north in Huehuetoca, Mexico, Sept. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

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