LatestLeslie MazochSeptember 05, 2023Comment

Latin America and Caribbean in Review

LatestLeslie MazochSeptember 05, 2023Comment

This monthly gallery features some of the top photojournalism made by Associated Press photographers documenting Latin America and the Caribbean during the month of August.

People attend the closing campaign rally for the "Movement Construye" party in Quito, Ecuador, Aug. 17, 2023, ahead of the snap election called after the president dissolved the National Assembly to avoid being impeached. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Residents wade through flood waters brought by Hurricane Idalia in Batabano, Cuba, Aug. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Police escort the remains of slain presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio at Camposanto Monteolivo cemetery for his burial in Quito, Ecuador, Aug. 11, 2023. The 59-year-old was fatally shot at a campaign rally on Aug. 9 in Quito. (AP Photo/Carlos Noriega)

Family members pay their last respects to five-year-old Eloah Passos at Cacuia Cemetery, two days after she was killed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 14, 2023. Passos died from a stray bullet while at home in the Dende favela on Aug. 12. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Presidential hopeful Javier Milei holds a rally ahead of primary elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 7, 2023.(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Luciano Sanchez, of Argentina's Argentinos Juniors, snaps his knee during a Copa Libertadores round of 16 first leg soccer match with Brazil's Fluminense in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivan Fernandez)

A woman covers herself in the rain with an election banner of presidential hopeful Sandra Torres after attending her campaign rally in Chimaltenango, Guatemala, Aug. 13, 2023, ahead of the Aug. 20 runoff election. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Soldiers in historical uniforms fire a salute from cannons during a ceremony commemorating the battle of Boyaca that sealed independence from Spain, in Puente de Boyaca, Colombia, Aug. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

The daughters of imprisoned mothers celebrate their 15th birthday, or quinceaneras, at the San Marta Acatitla rehabilitation center for women in Mexico City, Aug. 18, 2023. The event aims to help keep connected the families of jailed women. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

A toddler watches from behind a storefront gate where a soldier stands guard at a security check point in Duran, Ecuador, Aug. 14, 2023, during a state of emergency triggered by the assignation of a presidential candidate. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Catia Lattouf poses for a photo with hummingbirds in her care, at her apartment-turned makeshift clinic for the tiny birds in Mexico City, Aug. 7, 2023. Lattouf who has some 60 hummingbirds under her care, has become a reference source for bird lovers, amateur and professional alike, across Mexico and other parts of Latin America. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Police guard a supermarket after reports that looters tried to break into the store in Bariloche, Argentina, Aug. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Sonia Guajajara, Minister of Indigenous Peoples, speaks during the Amazon Dialogue meetings in Belem, Brazil, Aug. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

A pig, coated with a thick greenish film that grows on Lake Maracaibo, sniffs the ground while foraging near the lake's shore in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Aug. 10, 2023. The pollution around the lake, one of Latin America's largest, is the result of decades of excessive oil exploitation on its bed, inadequate maintenance, and a lack of investment to improve an already obsolete infrastructure, according to environmentalists. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

South Africa's Jean Kleyn holds the ball during a rugby test match against Argentina in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A police officer holds a person who was shot in the head during violent gang clashes, on a moto-taxi in the Carrefour-Feuilles district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Aug. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/ Odelyn Joseph)

A firefighter walks through the smoke of a mountain farmland fire in Soacha near Bogota, Colombia, Aug. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

A dog dressed in a tuxedo attends a Mass at the Body of Christ church during celebrations marking the feast day of Saint Roch, recognized as the patron saint of dogs, in El Alto, Bolivia, Aug. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Two-year-old Afghan refugee Farnia Hassani plays on the beach in Praia Grande, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, Aug. 15, 2023. Afghan refugees continue to arrive in Brazil with government-authorized temporary visas and residences issued for humanitarian reasons. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Indigenous leaders from the Jujuy province burn incense during the celebrations of Mother Earth Day in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 1, 2023. The group's gathering is also a protest against a provincial constitutional reform they claim is an attempt against their ancestral rights to lands that the state aims to use for lithium mining. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Municipal workers stand by a dead whale that washed up on the Punta Hermosa beach in Lima, Peru, Aug. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)

Painter Efren Cortes opens the door of his workshop after transporting his paintings, including one of the late President Salvador Allende, on a dolly from the Plaza de Armas, where he has been selling his paintings for over 30 years in Santiago, Chile, Aug. 31, 2023. The painting of Allende, which is not for sale but for display, was commissioned for the commemorative book "Chicho," Allende´s nickname, to mark the 50th anniversary of the military coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet that overthrew his government. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Youths play a pick-up game of basketball in the San Agustin neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Aug. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Paraguay's newly sworn-in President Santiago Pena and wife Leticia Ocampos wave on their way to the Cathedral on Pena's inauguration day in Asuncion, Paraguay, Aug. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)