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 April.

Boys play soccer as they wait for a street soccer training program run by the Street Child United Brazil organization in the Complexo da Penha favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Faithful place crosses on the trunk of the Tree of Life during a Good Friday procession in Bogota, Colombia, April 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Roger Guedes of Brazil's Corinthians does a bicycle kick at a Copa Libertadores soccer match against Argentina's Argentinos Juniors in Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

A woman poses for a photo outside the home she built after gangs set her other home on fire in the Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Sur greets a horse named Alinco Besy Namibia at the week-long equestrian event Nuestros Ceballos at the La Rural fairgrounds in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Itamaraty Palace workers carry Russian flags as they prep for the arrival of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Brasilia, Brazil, April 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Patrick Craig, from The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado, looks after a sedated lion before its transfer from Puerto Rico's only zoo that is closing in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, April 28, 2023. The territory's only zoo is closing after years of suspected neglect, lack of resources and deaths of animals, and most are being transferred to the Colorado sanctuary. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo)

People compete in a tug-of-war at the Indigenous Games in the Tapirema community of Peruibe, Brazil, April 22, 2023. Indigenous held their version of the Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Catholic penitents take part in the Jesus of Great Power procession in Quito, Ecuador, April 7, 2023. Processions and religious floats parade through the streets of villages and cities across the region during Holy Week, commemorating the last week of the earthly life of Jesus Christ culminating in his crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

A fruit vendor covers her face amid tear gas fired by police during clashes with protesting teachers near the government palace in La Paz, Bolivia, April 12, 2023. Teachers demand more pay and protest the new public school curriculum. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

A girl looks through the hole of the door inside a portable bathroom a migrant shelter in Pacaraima, Brazil, on the border with Venezuela, April 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Santiago Peña, presidential candidate for the ruling Colorado Party, greets a supporter as he arrives to his campaign rally in Villa Elisa, Paraguay, April 26, 2023. Pena won the election on April 30. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

An effigy, labeled "corrupt one,” surrounded with props representing bags of money, is displayed on a sidewalk before it is ignited during the annual Burning of Judas celebrations in Caracas, Venezuela, April 9, 2023. Originally, the burning figures were effigies of Judas Iscariot, the apostle who is said to have betrayed Jesus Christ. Nowadays, though, artisans shape their "Judas" like as horned devils or other characters considered evil. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

The Mexican Lucha Libre wrestler “CintaDeOro,” or Gold Belt, looks at a painting by Claude Monet during the inauguration of a Monet exhibition at the National Arts Museum in Mexico City, April 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Residents use a Coco taxi that’s normally used by tourists in Havana, Cuba, April 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Youths attend the wake of Guatemalan migrant Francisco Rojche at his home in Chicacao, Guatemala, April 12, 2023. Rojche and his uncle Miguel died in a fire while they were held at a Mexican immigration detention center on the Mexico-US border in Ciudad Juarez. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Peruvian soldiers raise their country's flag on the border with Chile in Tacna, Peru, April 28, 2023. A migration crisis at the border between Chile and Peru intensified as hundreds of migrants remained stranded, unable to cross into Peru. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Bystanders gather around the bodies of alleged gang members who were set on fire by a mob after they were stopped by police while traveling in a vehicle in the Canape Vert area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

A fisherman sleeps in a net used to wash fish at the harbor of Ancon, Peru, early April 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

People perform the 14 Stations of the Cross in Colina, Chile, on Good Friday, April 7, 2023. Christians attended mock crucifixions and passion plays marking the day Jesus Christ was crucified. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Crashed vehicles lay on and under the El Alambrado bridge after it collapsed the previous day in Caicedonia, Colombia, April 13, 2023. Two people died and over a dozen were injured, according to authorities. (AP Photo/Andres Quintero)

Photographed from high above, lithium processes in a pool of brine at the SQM mine under the sun in Chile's Atacama desert, April 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Artisan Gabriel Gutierrez paints a “Pachuco” version of Judas in preparation for the annual burning of Judas in Mexico City, April 5, 2023. During Holy Week, people gather in neighborhoods across the country to burn cardboard figures of Judas that represent evil. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Homeless men sleep at the Jorge Newbery international airport under a photo of the Perito Moreno Glacier, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 6, 2023. More than 100 homeless people sleep nightly at the airport. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Italy's Marco Bezzecchi celebrates on the podium after winning the Moto GP race for the Ducati Mooney VR46 Racing team in Termas de Rio Hondo, Argentina, April 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A food vendor waits for customers at the Palm Fair in El Alto, Bolivia, April 2, 2023. The fair, which began as a way to recreate the livestock markets of biblical times, is dominated by all sorts of informal trade. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

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Lead photo (published in April) : Fans of the Mexican Punk Rock band Seguimos Perdiendo, or, We Keep Losing,” dance during one of the last open weekends at the Multiforo Cultural Alicia in Mexico City, Feb. 17, 2023. After 27 years, the iconic, counterculture venue closed its doors forever, marking an end of an era, and a sign of the toll gentrification has taken on the city. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

This gallery was curated by AP photojournalist Fernando Vergara in Bogota, Colombia.

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