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 October.

A boat is stuck in the low water levels of the Negro River during a drought in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, Oct. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

Indigenous people from the Mbya Guarani ethnic group attend the annual Indigenous Resistance March, on the Day of Resistance in Asuncion, Paraguay, Oct. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

The legs of a dismembered man protrude from a bag on the street where children play and dogs roam in the Colinas de La Florida neighborhood in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Oct. 1, 2023. The legs laid there for hours before being picked up by authorities and the rest of the man's body parts were found scattered a few blocks away. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Isaac Medina, center, and Jazmin Gonzalez, center right, watch a "ring of fire" solar eclipse before their wedding ceremony in Merida, Mexico, Oct. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Zetina)

A crane lifts firefighters in a cage toward a building in search of survivors after it partially collapsed in Havana, Cuba, Oct. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Opposition presidential hopeful Maria Corina Machado speaks to supporters during a rally in Valencia, Carabobo State, Venezuela, Oct. 5, 2023. After Machado won the primary, the chief prosecutor announced a criminal investigation into organizers of the primary and Machado remains officially barred from running for office.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

A woman dressed as the "Ghost nun from Sucre" performs at a House of Terror during a Day of the Dead event in La Paz, Bolivia, Oct. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Boats lay in ruins at the yacht club after the passing of Hurricane Otis in Acapulco, Mexico, Oct. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

A supporter of presidential candidate Javier Milei wears a chainsaw mask outside his campaign headquarters after polls closed for general elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Mario De Fina)

Haitians detained for deportation stand in a police truck on a border bridge between Dajabon, Dominican Republic, and Haiti, Oct. 11, 2023. The D.R. partially reopened its border with Haiti to limited commercial activity nearly a month after shuttering the frontier in a continuing spat over the construction of a canal targeting water from a shared river. (AP Photo/Ricardo Hernandez)

Colombia's Concepcion Usuga competes in women's weightlifting 59Kg at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, Oct. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

The bodies of slain police officers are slumped against a wall in El Papayo, Coyuca de Benitez municipality, Guerrero state, Mexico, Oct. 23, 2023. Twelve police officers and their boss were gunned down, according to Guerrero state prosecutor's office. (AP Photo/Bernardino Hernandez)

A woman dressed as a Catrina takes part in a parade as part of Day of the Dead celebrations, along the iconic Reforma Avenue in Mexico City, Oct. 22, 2023. The holiday officially begins Oct. 31, remembering those who died in accidents; it continues Nov. 1 to mark those who died in childhood, and then those who died as adults on Nov. 2. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)

Fans of the Boca Juniors soccer team wave a flag featuring the club's Vice President Juan Ramon Riquelme, who is a former player with the team, during a local tournament soccer match with River Plate at La Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

Woodberson Seide puts his drums away after a practice session at the Plezi Mizik Composition Futures School in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sept. 21, 2023. Woodberson Seide took his first lesson two years ago as part of the after-school music program founded in 2014 by U.S. nonprofit Music Heals International. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Migrants heading north line up to take a boat, in Bajo Chiquito, Darien province, Panama, Oct. 5, 2023, after walking across the Darien Gap from Colombia. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

A voter walks past electoral lists during elections in Bogota, Colombia, Oct. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

A traffic sign lays on a car after Hurricane Otis ripped through Acapulco, Mexico, Oct. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Felipe Melo of Brazil's Fluminense celebrates their 2-1 victory over Brazil's Internacional at the end of a Copa Libertadores semifinal second leg soccer match at Beira Rio stadium in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Oct. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Presidential candidate Javier Milei greets supporters at his campaign headquarters after polls closed for general elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez, of the Citizen's Revolutionary Movement, arrives to vote in a runoff election in Canuto, Ecuador, Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Ochoa)

A demonstrator dressed as the comic book character The Joker, holds a Panamanian flag during a protest against a mining contract between the government and Canadian mining company First Quantum, in Panama City, Oct. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

Inmates attend a class on social behavior from inside their shared cell during a press tour of the Terrorism Confinement Center, a mega-prison in Tecololuca, El Salvador, Oct. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Canada's Felix Dolci competes on the uneven bars during the men’s artistic gymnastics all-around final at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, Oct. 23, 2023. Dolci took the gold. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Argentina's players head to the locker room at the half of a men's team field hockey match against Chile at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, Oct. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

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Lead photo: Police ride past residents in a bulldozer they use to clear street barricades during a security operation against organized crime in the Mare Complex favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

This gallery was curated by Leslie Mazoch, AP Senior Photo Editor for Latin America and Caribbean based in Mexico City.