Week That Was in Latin America: June 16 - 22
Week That Was in Latin America: June 16 - 22
In this Wednesday, June 21, 2017 photo, a woman, while on her bicycle, is lifted and placed by police into a paddy wagon during a protest march demanding the government overhaul the education funding system that would include canceling their student loan debt, in Santiago, Chile. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
In this Tuesday, June 20, 2017 photo, a group of dogs with disabilities run with the help of doggy wheelchairs on the Agua Dulce beach in the Chorrillos neighborhood of Lima, Peru. The dogs are cared for by local resident Sara Moran. In winter, when most Peruvians avoid the beach, she takes the dogs on frequent runs across the hard, black sand. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
In this early Wednesday, June 21, 2017 photo, Aymaras hold up their hands to receive the first rays of sunlight in a New Year’s ritual on the ruins of Bolivia’s ancient city Tiwanaku. Bolivia’s Aymara are celebrating the year 5,525 as well as the Southern Hemisphere’s winter solstice, which marks the start of a new agricultural cycle for them. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
In this Feb. 8, 2017 photo published June 19, 2017, Belen Torres poses for a portrait in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Torres was beaten by her boss, just a few days after starting her first job in the capital doing administrative paperwork for an anesthesiologist, to help her family pay the bills. The doctor asked her to get high and tried to have sex with her. After he beat her, she was able to escape and run outside, where an unknown man called 911. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
In this Wednesday, June 21, 2017 photo, chairs bearing portraits of people who were disappeared during the 1980’s, sit empty in a ceremony marking the National Day of the Disappeared in Guatemala City. According to human rights groups, more than 40,000 people were “disappeared” during Guatemala’s 36 years of internal conflict. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
In this Friday, June 16, 2017 photo, a protestor rests inside a public art piece as he waits for the start of an “anti-imperialist” protest decrying U.S. intervention in Latin America, outside the U.S. embassy in Mexico City. The demonstration also took aim at the Organization of American States, which met in Cancun for their annual General Assembly. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
In this Friday, June 16, 2017 photo, a woman walks with her daughter past a mural depicting U.S. President Donald Trump straddling a cactus, in Havana, Cuba. Trump announced changes to his predecessor’s policies of engagement with the communist island. Hard-line exiles agreed with Trump’s move that includes rolling back some of the changes by restricting commerce with entities linked to Cuba’s military and restoring tougher travel rules. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
In this Friday, June 16, 2017 photo, members of the federal police show a high relief plaque in the likeness of Adolf Hitler at Interpol headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Nazi artifacts were found in a collector’s home in Beccar, a suburb north of Buenos Aires, and authorities say they suspect they are originals that belonged to high-ranking Nazis in Germany during World War II. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
In this Saturday, June 17, 2017 photo, Puerto Rican musician Residente performs “El Aguate” during the debut of his solo tour, at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City. Residente is backdropped by a panel of images showing dictators who are mentioned in the lyrics of the song which decries many of the abuses humans have lived through. Pictured from left to right; Francisco Franco of Spain; Mao Zedong of the People’s Republic of China; Rios Montt of Guatemala; Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe; Adolf Hitler of Germany; and Idi Amin of Uganda.(AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
In this Monday, June 19, 2017 photo, an anti-government demonstrator wearing a national flag as a cape, slips during clashes with security forces along a highway in Caracas, Venezuela. Nearly three months of political unrest were set off by Nicolas Maduro’s government attempt to nullify the opposition-controlled congress in late March. But demonstrations have escalated into a vehicle for airing grievances against the government for triple-digit inflation, food shortages, a rise in crime and Maduro’s attempt to rewrite the constitution. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
In this Thursday, June 22, 2017 photo, demonstrators run from advancing security forces who prevented the demonstrators from marching to the office of Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz to show support for the one-time government loyalist, in Caracas, Venezuela. The country’s Supreme Court cleared the way for the prosecution of the country’s chief prosecutor, who became a surprise hero to the opposition after breaking ranks with the government of President Nicolas Maduro over his efforts to concentrate power. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
In this Wednesday, June 21, 2017 photo, a woman, while on her bicycle, is lifted and placed by police into a paddy wagon during a protest march demanding the government overhaul the education funding system that would include canceling their student loan debt, in Santiago, Chile. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
In this Wednesday, June 21, 2017 photo, a woman, while on her bicycle, is lifted and placed by police into a paddy wagon during a protest march demanding the government overhaul the education funding system that would include canceling their student loan debt, in Santiago, Chile. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
In this Tuesday, June 20, 2017 photo, a group of dogs with disabilities run with the help of doggy wheelchairs on the Agua Dulce beach in the Chorrillos neighborhood of Lima, Peru. The dogs are cared for by local resident Sara Moran. In winter, when most Peruvians avoid the beach, she takes the dogs on frequent runs across the hard, black sand. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
In this Tuesday, June 20, 2017 photo, a group of dogs with disabilities run with the help of doggy wheelchairs on the Agua Dulce beach in the Chorrillos neighborhood of Lima, Peru. The dogs are cared for by local resident Sara Moran. In winter, when most Peruvians avoid the beach, she takes the dogs on frequent runs across the hard, black sand. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
In this early Wednesday, June 21, 2017 photo, Aymaras hold up their hands to receive the first rays of sunlight in a New Year’s ritual on the ruins of Bolivia’s ancient city Tiwanaku. Bolivia’s Aymara are celebrating the year 5,525 as well as the Southern Hemisphere’s winter solstice, which marks the start of a new agricultural cycle for them. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
In this early Wednesday, June 21, 2017 photo, Aymaras hold up their hands to receive the first rays of sunlight in a New Year’s ritual on the ruins of Bolivia’s ancient city Tiwanaku. Bolivia’s Aymara are celebrating the year 5,525 as well as the Southern Hemisphere’s winter solstice, which marks the start of a new agricultural cycle for them. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
In this Feb. 8, 2017 photo published June 19, 2017, Belen Torres poses for a portrait in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Torres was beaten by her boss, just a few days after starting her first job in the capital doing administrative paperwork for an anesthesiologist, to help her family pay the bills. The doctor asked her to get high and tried to have sex with her. After he beat her, she was able to escape and run outside, where an unknown man called 911. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
In this Feb. 8, 2017 photo published June 19, 2017, Belen Torres poses for a portrait in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Torres was beaten by her boss, just a few days after starting her first job in the capital doing administrative paperwork for an anesthesiologist, to help her family pay the bills. The doctor asked her to get high and tried to have sex with her. After he beat her, she was able to escape and run outside, where an unknown man called 911. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
In this Wednesday, June 21, 2017 photo, chairs bearing portraits of people who were disappeared during the 1980’s, sit empty in a ceremony marking the National Day of the Disappeared in Guatemala City. According to human rights groups, more than 40,000 people were “disappeared” during Guatemala’s 36 years of internal conflict. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
In this Wednesday, June 21, 2017 photo, chairs bearing portraits of people who were disappeared during the 1980’s, sit empty in a ceremony marking the National Day of the Disappeared in Guatemala City. According to human rights groups, more than 40,000 people were “disappeared” during Guatemala’s 36 years of internal conflict. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
In this Friday, June 16, 2017 photo, a protestor rests inside a public art piece as he waits for the start of an “anti-imperialist” protest decrying U.S. intervention in Latin America, outside the U.S. embassy in Mexico City. The demonstration also took aim at the Organization of American States, which met in Cancun for their annual General Assembly. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
In this Friday, June 16, 2017 photo, a protestor rests inside a public art piece as he waits for the start of an “anti-imperialist” protest decrying U.S. intervention in Latin America, outside the U.S. embassy in Mexico City. The demonstration also took aim at the Organization of American States, which met in Cancun for their annual General Assembly. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
In this Friday, June 16, 2017 photo, a woman walks with her daughter past a mural depicting U.S. President Donald Trump straddling a cactus, in Havana, Cuba. Trump announced changes to his predecessor’s policies of engagement with the communist island. Hard-line exiles agreed with Trump’s move that includes rolling back some of the changes by restricting commerce with entities linked to Cuba’s military and restoring tougher travel rules. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
In this Friday, June 16, 2017 photo, a woman walks with her daughter past a mural depicting U.S. President Donald Trump straddling a cactus, in Havana, Cuba. Trump announced changes to his predecessor’s policies of engagement with the communist island. Hard-line exiles agreed with Trump’s move that includes rolling back some of the changes by restricting commerce with entities linked to Cuba’s military and restoring tougher travel rules. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
In this Friday, June 16, 2017 photo, members of the federal police show a high relief plaque in the likeness of Adolf Hitler at Interpol headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Nazi artifacts were found in a collector’s home in Beccar, a suburb north of Buenos Aires, and authorities say they suspect they are originals that belonged to high-ranking Nazis in Germany during World War II. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
In this Friday, June 16, 2017 photo, members of the federal police show a high relief plaque in the likeness of Adolf Hitler at Interpol headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Nazi artifacts were found in a collector’s home in Beccar, a suburb north of Buenos Aires, and authorities say they suspect they are originals that belonged to high-ranking Nazis in Germany during World War II. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
In this Saturday, June 17, 2017 photo, Puerto Rican musician Residente performs “El Aguate” during the debut of his solo tour, at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City. Residente is backdropped by a panel of images showing dictators who are mentioned in the lyrics of the song which decries many of the abuses humans have lived through. Pictured from left to right; Francisco Franco of Spain; Mao Zedong of the People’s Republic of China; Rios Montt of Guatemala; Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe; Adolf Hitler of Germany; and Idi Amin of Uganda.(AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
In this Saturday, June 17, 2017 photo, Puerto Rican musician Residente performs “El Aguate” during the debut of his solo tour, at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City. Residente is backdropped by a panel of images showing dictators who are mentioned in the lyrics of the song which decries many of the abuses humans have lived through. Pictured from left to right; Francisco Franco of Spain; Mao Zedong of the People’s Republic of China; Rios Montt of Guatemala; Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe; Adolf Hitler of Germany; and Idi Amin of Uganda.(AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
In this Monday, June 19, 2017 photo, an anti-government demonstrator wearing a national flag as a cape, slips during clashes with security forces along a highway in Caracas, Venezuela. Nearly three months of political unrest were set off by Nicolas Maduro’s government attempt to nullify the opposition-controlled congress in late March. But demonstrations have escalated into a vehicle for airing grievances against the government for triple-digit inflation, food shortages, a rise in crime and Maduro’s attempt to rewrite the constitution. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
In this Monday, June 19, 2017 photo, an anti-government demonstrator wearing a national flag as a cape, slips during clashes with security forces along a highway in Caracas, Venezuela. Nearly three months of political unrest were set off by Nicolas Maduro’s government attempt to nullify the opposition-controlled congress in late March. But demonstrations have escalated into a vehicle for airing grievances against the government for triple-digit inflation, food shortages, a rise in crime and Maduro’s attempt to rewrite the constitution. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
In this Thursday, June 22, 2017 photo, demonstrators run from advancing security forces who prevented the demonstrators from marching to the office of Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz to show support for the one-time government loyalist, in Caracas, Venezuela. The country’s Supreme Court cleared the way for the prosecution of the country’s chief prosecutor, who became a surprise hero to the opposition after breaking ranks with the government of President Nicolas Maduro over his efforts to concentrate power. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
In this Thursday, June 22, 2017 photo, demonstrators run from advancing security forces who prevented the demonstrators from marching to the office of Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz to show support for the one-time government loyalist, in Caracas, Venezuela. The country’s Supreme Court cleared the way for the prosecution of the country’s chief prosecutor, who became a surprise hero to the opposition after breaking ranks with the government of President Nicolas Maduro over his efforts to concentrate power. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
This photo gallery highlights some of the top news images made by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean that were published between June 16 - 22, 2017.