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 March.

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron, arrive on Combu Island, near Belem, Para state, Brazil, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres).

Birds fly over penitents known as cucuruchos during the Jesus the Almighty Good Friday procession, as part of Holy Week celebrations, in Quito, Ecuador, March 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

A woman suspected in the kidnapping and killing of an 8-year-old girl, is dragged out of a police vehicle by a mob in Taxco, Mexico, March 28, 2024. Police then picked her up off the ground and took her away. The Guerrero state prosecutors’ office later confirmed the woman died of her injuries. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Emerald miner Janeth Paez stands inside the tunnel of an informal mine near the town of Coscuez, Colombia, Feb. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

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Emergency personnel carry a 4-year-old girl who was rescued from her collapsed house after heavy rains, in Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Saturday, March 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

A person holds a statuette of the Virgin of Charity of Cobre during Mass at the Virgin's shrine in El Cobre, Cuba, Feb. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A child dressed as an astronaut attends an Astronomy Festival in Villa de Leyva, Colombia, March 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Women cover their faces with white scarves to symbolize that they are invisible in the justice system during a performance on International Women's Day in Lima, Peru, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

The Alvarez family adds the finishing touches to their sawdust carpet in preparation for a Good Friday procession during Holy Week in Antigua, Guatemala, March 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Argentine singer and former YouTuber Maria Becerra performs at the River Plate stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Youth take cover after hearing gunshots at a public school that serves as a shelter for people displaced by gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

A brigade fumigates to combat dengue amid a surge in cases nationwide in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Boats float along the flooded shores of Lake Titicaca in Isla de Cojata, Bolivia, March 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

A resident looks at his home destroyed by wildfires in Maltrata, Mexico, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

A monkey reaches out to catch an Easter egg filled with treats, tossed by a zookeeper at the Buin Zoo in Santiago, Chile, March 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

A youth leaps off the edge of a rock into the waters of Arpoador beach amid a heat wave, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Opposition leader María Corina Machado embraces Corina Yoris during a press conference in Caracas, Venezuela, March 22, 2024. Machado named Yoris as a substitute to her presidential bid while she fights a government ban on her running for office. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

A gaucho or South American cowboy bathes a horse during the Criolla Week rodeo festival, in Montevideo, Uruguay, March 26, 2024. The rodeo has been a Holy Week tradition since 1925. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

A Brazil soccer fan poses next to life-size statues of South American soccer stars, from left, Lionel Messi, Pele and Diego Maradona at the CONMEBOL museum on the day of its re-inauguration in Luque, Paraguay, March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

'Piadosas' or pious ones pray over a statue of the Virgin Mary during the 'Lloronas' or Weeping Women’s procession as part of Good Friday in Yavi, Argentina, March 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Music fans watch Mexican singer Junior H perform at the Vive Latino music festival in Mexico City, March 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)

Karol G performs during her "Manana Sera Bonito" tour at the Monumental Simon Bolivar Stadium in Caracas, Venezuela, March 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

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Lead photo: Residents push a giant paper-mache bull stuffed with fireworks, known as a “torito,” during nighttime lighting of bull-shaped figures during an annual festival honoring Saint John of God in Tultepec, Mexico, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

This gallery was curated by photojournalist Moises Castillo based in Guatemala City.