This monthly gallery features some of the top photojournalism made by Associated Press photographers documenting Latin America and the Caribbean in July.
A fisherman looks at fishing vessels damaged by Hurricane Beryl at the Bridgetown Fisheries in Barbados, July 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
Elvio Araujo poses in his feathered costume during Mass honoring Saint Francisco Solano in Emboscada, Paraguay, July 24, 2024. Catholic parishioners don bird-like costumes and parade to honor the 16th-century saint said to possess miraculous powers. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
Voters look at electoral lists prior to the opening of the polls for presidential elections in Caracas, Venezuela, July 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Argentine President Javier Milei and Vice President Victoria Villarruel laugh on an armored tank during a military parade on Independence Day in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)
Homes dot the Petare neighborhood on a cloudy morning in Caracas, Venezuela, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Colombia soccer fans celebrate their team’s victory over Uruguay after watching the Copa America semifinal on TV in Bogota, Colombia, July 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Venezuelan migrant boys play with a toy gun, crafted from square tubing and rope, at a migrant shelter in Assis, Brazil, June 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
People protest the official election results declaring President Nicolas Maduro the winner of the presidential election, the day after the vote in Caracas, Venezuela, July 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
A whale shark swims near Wolf Island, Ecuador, next to Enrique "Quike" Moran, a local naturalist from Santa Cruz Island, Ecuador in the Galapagos, June 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Alie Skowronski)
Daniel Fonseca, 15, lifts blocks of cement at a public gym set up at Los Caobos Park in Caracas, Venezuela, July 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Boca Juniors’ Edinson Cavani scores his side's opening goal past goalkeeper Moises Ramirez, of Ecuador's Independiente del Valle, at a Copa Sudamericana playoffs soccer match in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)
A destroyed statue of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez lays next to its base in Valencia, Venezuela, July 31, 2024, the day after people protested the official election results that certified Chavez's protege, current President Nicolas Maduro, as the winner. (AP Photo/Jacinto Oliveros)
Clara Macaroni, 3, rests on her father's prize-winning Shorthorn cow before a parade at the Rural Society's annual exposition in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Boys dressed as soldiers pose for a photo at the Independence Day military parade in Bogota, Colombia, July 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
A dog howls as Venezuelan migrant Ali Gomez shaves at a migrant camp set up along the railroad track in Mexico City, July 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
A young Brazil soccer fan watches his team's Copa America soccer match against Colombia on a screen set up on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, July 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Jimmy Chérizier, a former elite police officer known as Barbecue and leader of the G9 and Family gang, speaks to journalists in the Delmas 6 neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
A campaign mural promoting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s reelection covers a wall in Caracas, Venezuela, July 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Dead flish float on the banks of the Piracicaba River in a rural area of Piracicaba, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, July 17, 2024. The state's environmental agency said the cause is irregular dumping of industrial waste into the river. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
A supporter of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro features the president's name woven into his beard at the president's closing campaign rally for reelection in Caracas, Venezuela, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)
Sofia Maldonado wears her national flag’s colors next to her father who is dressed as "Toro Kandil" as they gets ready for San Juan festivities in the Kuna Pyapy Mbarete neighborhood on the outskirts of Asuncion, Paraguay, July 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado greets supporters during a campaign rally for presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez, in Maturin, Venezuela, July 20, 2024, one week before the election. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
A reveler takes part in the Gay Pride march in Caracas, Venezuela, July 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)
Police launch tear gas at protesters demonstrating against the official election results declaring President Nicolas Maduro's reelection, the day after the vote in Caracas Venezuela, July 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Supporters of former Bolivian President Evo Morales gather outside the Supreme Electoral Tribunal which called for a meeting by political party leaders to discuss the primaries in La Paz, Bolivia, July 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
A boy kicks a soccer ball at sunset in Santiago, Chile, July 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Basualdo)
Lead photo: A woman plays with her dogs in the Santa Rosa de Agua neighborhood of Maracaibo, Venezuela, Monday, July 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
This gallery was edited by AP photojournalist Juan Karita in La Paz, Bolivia.