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 June.

Olivia Mora cries over the casket of her brother Hipolito Mora during his wake at his home in La Ruana, Mexico, June 30, 2023. Hipolito Mora, the leader of an armed civilian movement that once drove a drug cartel out of the western state of Michoacan, was killed Thursday on a street in his hometown. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Fisherwomen and men pull in a net of fish off the coast of Chuao, Venezuela, early June 7, 2023. Some women are joining a family tradition of fishing and in other cases launching new careers after losing jobs during Venezuela’s economic crisis. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Januelle Datka, her baby girl Princess and her 15-year-old daughter Titti, pose for a photo at a makeshift shelter in Jean-Kere Almicar's front yard, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, June 4, 2023. Both mother and daughter said they were raped by gang members and that both became pregnant. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

A protester waves a national flag during a march against the government’s reforms to the nation's healthcare system, pensions and labor, in Bolivar square in Bogota, Colombia, June 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Rony of Brazil's Palmeiras does a backflip as he celebrates a goal that was later disallowed by the referee for an offside decision during a Copa Libertadores Group C soccer match against Ecuador's Barcelona at the Allianz Parque stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Taken with a long exposure, girls dancing during the afternoon rituals of the second day of the Wyra'whaw coming-of-age festival in the Ramada ritual center, in Tenetehar Wa Tembe village, located in the Alto Rio Guama Indigenous territory in Para state, Brazil, June 10, 2023. Known as the Menina Moca in Portuguese, the three-day festival is for adolescent boys and girls in Brazil's Amazon. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Newspaper founder and editor Jose Ruben Zamora rides in patrol car, surrounded by the press, back to prison after a court hearing in Guatemala City, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. A tribunal has convicted Zamora and sentenced him to six years in prison in a money laundering case. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

People create a line holding hands along Sao Conrado beach for a symbolic group hug with the sea, an event coined "That Hug" to draw attention to ocean pollution on World Oceans Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Adriana Veliz searches for the queen bee from the most recent group of bees rescued by the SOS Abeja Negra organization, in Xochimilco, Mexico, June 13, 2023. "We do these rescues because it's a species that's in danger of extinction," said Velíz. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Military personnel unload from a plane one of four Indigenous children who were missing after a deadly plane crash at the military air base in Bogota, Colombia, June 10, 2023. The children survived a small plane crash 40 days ago and had been the subject of an intense search in the jungle. (AP Photo/John Vizcaino)

A youth smokes marijuana during the Open Plaza festival organized by the Granjamadre marijuana farm, in Asuncion, Paraguay, June 4, 2023. Organizers were affiliating people to found the Cannabic Club of Paraguay. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

A campaign billboard promoting Edmond Mulet, presidential candidate of the Cabal party, towers over a highway in Santa Lucia Milpas Altas, Guatemala, June 24, 2023. Guatemalans go to the polls on June 25. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Revelers march in the Gay Pride parade in Bogota, Colombia, July 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Dengue patients Maria Galan, 47, lies in her bed at the San Pablo low-income neighborhood in Piura, Peru, June 4, 2023. Dengue, a viral disease transmitted by a mosquito, causes flu-like symptoms, such as muscle pain and fever. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Elian Gonzalez poses for a photo in Havana, Cuba, June 27, 2023. Twenty three years after González became the center of a dramatic diplomatic custody battle between Cuba and the United States, the young Cuban is now headed to his country’s congress with hopes of representing his people at a time of record migration and heightened tension between the two seaside neighbors. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

An archaeologist excavates a pre-Hispanic mummy that was discovered next to a training field for a Peruvian professional soccer team in the El Rimac neighborhood of Lima, Peru, June 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Artist Preta Queenb Rull performs during an LGBT+ artistic show entitled "Noite das Estrelas" or the Night of the Stars, at the Mare Favela complex, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot is driven in a police vehicle from the Ancon I maximum-security prison, outskirts of Lima, Peru, June 8, 2023. The main suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway on the Caribbean island of Aruba is expected to be extradited Thursday from Peru to the United States. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

A woman wades through a flooded alleyway after a heavy rain in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Protesters assist a demonstrator injured during clashes between police and protesters, in San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina, June 20, 2023. Protests have erupted throughout the province in response to a recently approved provincial constitutional reform that critics argue restricts the rights of social protest.(AP Photo/Juan Burgos)

A child runs through a mirror installation titled Sea of Mirrors, featuring digital images of horizons, oceans and rivers, during a preview tour the day before the show's public opening at the AquaRio aquarium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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Lead photo: A contestant waits to compete in the Miss Cholita Pacena 2023 beauty pageant in Valle de La Luna on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia, June 23, 2023. The annual contest recognizes Aymara women's fashion and beauty as well as their command of their Indigenous lifestyle and language. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

This gallery was edited by photojournalist Ariana Cubillos, based in Caracas, Venezuela.