AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Revelers parade on wooden stilts during a pre-carnival street party rehearsal, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jan. 21, 2024. Brazilians are gearing up for this year’s Carnival, scheduled from Feb. 9-17. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Clad in a yellow vest, Efruz, a 4-year-old Jack Russell terrier, surfs a wave accompanied by his caretaker Mauro Canella, a surfing instructor, in the Pacific waters of San Bartolo, Peru, Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Smoke rises from a fire burning on the slopes of the mountains surrounding Nemocon, north of Bogota, Colombia, Jan. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Erika Maria Cruz, left, and her husband, grieve next to the body of their son, Brando Arellano Cruz, fatally shot by police after he failed to pull over, in Lerdo de Tejada, Mexico, Jan. 19, 2024. Four municipal police officers are under investigation in relation to the death of the young man, after the victim’s neighbors staged violent protests and attempted to lynch the officers. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Rapper Daniel Hernandez, known as Tekashi 6ix9ine, is escorted by police as he arrives for a court hearing at the Palace of Justice, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Jan. 25, 2024. A judge conditionally released the U.S. rapper after he was arrested in the Dominican Republic on domestic violence charges. (AP Photo/Ricardo Hernandez)
Police stand for a moment of silence for the country’s victims of violence, during a ceremony in which the president delivered security equipment, at the Gral. Alberto Enriquez Gallo police school in Quito, Ecuador, Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
Smoothie vendors push their cart along the shore in search of customers, in Las Toninas, Argentina, Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Vendors take cover from a rain shower, as they sit parked outside the San Francisco Basilica, in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Confetti showers the stage as Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro speaks during an event marking the anniversary of the 1958 coup that overthrew dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Jesus Vargas)
Members of the Basque group “Deabru Beltzak” perform, featuring Aker the devil, drummers, music and fireworks, in Santiago, Chile, Jan. 20, 2024. The groups’s . (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
A child forms angel wings as other children romp on a court blanketed with soap foam, during a summer activity in Tongoy, Chile, Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Basualdo)
Vick Teker, dressed in a national flag outfit holding a sign with a message that reads in Spanish: “I am art and I am hungry”, and a woman wearing a T-shirt with a message that reads: “There is no money. I am retired”, take part in a demonstration outside Congress as part of a national strike to protest the economic and labor reforms proposed by Argentine President Javier Milei in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jan. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Revelers parade on wooden stilts during a pre-carnival street party rehearsal, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jan. 21, 2024. Brazilians are gearing up for this year’s Carnival, scheduled from Feb. 9-17. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Revelers parade on wooden stilts during a pre-carnival street party rehearsal, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jan. 21, 2024. Brazilians are gearing up for this year’s Carnival, scheduled from Feb. 9-17. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Clad in a yellow vest, Efruz, a 4-year-old Jack Russell terrier, surfs a wave accompanied by his caretaker Mauro Canella, a surfing instructor, in the Pacific waters of San Bartolo, Peru, Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Clad in a yellow vest, Efruz, a 4-year-old Jack Russell terrier, surfs a wave accompanied by his caretaker Mauro Canella, a surfing instructor, in the Pacific waters of San Bartolo, Peru, Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Smoke rises from a fire burning on the slopes of the mountains surrounding Nemocon, north of Bogota, Colombia, Jan. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Smoke rises from a fire burning on the slopes of the mountains surrounding Nemocon, north of Bogota, Colombia, Jan. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Erika Maria Cruz, left, and her husband, grieve next to the body of their son, Brando Arellano Cruz, fatally shot by police after he failed to pull over, in Lerdo de Tejada, Mexico, Jan. 19, 2024. Four municipal police officers are under investigation in relation to the death of the young man, after the victim’s neighbors staged violent protests and attempted to lynch the officers. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Erika Maria Cruz, left, and her husband, grieve next to the body of their son, Brando Arellano Cruz, fatally shot by police after he failed to pull over, in Lerdo de Tejada, Mexico, Jan. 19, 2024. Four municipal police officers are under investigation in relation to the death of the young man, after the victim’s neighbors staged violent protests and attempted to lynch the officers. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Rapper Daniel Hernandez, known as Tekashi 6ix9ine, is escorted by police as he arrives for a court hearing at the Palace of Justice, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Jan. 25, 2024. A judge conditionally released the U.S. rapper after he was arrested in the Dominican Republic on domestic violence charges. (AP Photo/Ricardo Hernandez)
Rapper Daniel Hernandez, known as Tekashi 6ix9ine, is escorted by police as he arrives for a court hearing at the Palace of Justice, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Jan. 25, 2024. A judge conditionally released the U.S. rapper after he was arrested in the Dominican Republic on domestic violence charges. (AP Photo/Ricardo Hernandez)
Police stand for a moment of silence for the country’s victims of violence, during a ceremony in which the president delivered security equipment, at the Gral. Alberto Enriquez Gallo police school in Quito, Ecuador, Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
Police stand for a moment of silence for the country’s victims of violence, during a ceremony in which the president delivered security equipment, at the Gral. Alberto Enriquez Gallo police school in Quito, Ecuador, Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
Smoothie vendors push their cart along the shore in search of customers, in Las Toninas, Argentina, Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Smoothie vendors push their cart along the shore in search of customers, in Las Toninas, Argentina, Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Vendors take cover from a rain shower, as they sit parked outside the San Francisco Basilica, in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Vendors take cover from a rain shower, as they sit parked outside the San Francisco Basilica, in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Confetti showers the stage as Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro speaks during an event marking the anniversary of the 1958 coup that overthrew dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Jesus Vargas)
Confetti showers the stage as Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro speaks during an event marking the anniversary of the 1958 coup that overthrew dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Jesus Vargas)
Members of the Basque group “Deabru Beltzak” perform, featuring Aker the devil, drummers, music and fireworks, in Santiago, Chile, Jan. 20, 2024. The groups’s . (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Members of the Basque group “Deabru Beltzak” perform, featuring Aker the devil, drummers, music and fireworks, in Santiago, Chile, Jan. 20, 2024. The groups’s . (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
A child forms angel wings as other children romp on a court blanketed with soap foam, during a summer activity in Tongoy, Chile, Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Basualdo)
A child forms angel wings as other children romp on a court blanketed with soap foam, during a summer activity in Tongoy, Chile, Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Basualdo)
Vick Teker, dressed in a national flag outfit holding a sign with a message that reads in Spanish: “I am art and I am hungry”, and a woman wearing a T-shirt with a message that reads: “There is no money. I am retired”, take part in a demonstration outside Congress as part of a national strike to protest the economic and labor reforms proposed by Argentine President Javier Milei in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jan. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Vick Teker, dressed in a national flag outfit holding a sign with a message that reads in Spanish: “I am art and I am hungry”, and a woman wearing a T-shirt with a message that reads: “There is no money. I am retired”, take part in a demonstration outside Congress as part of a national strike to protest the economic and labor reforms proposed by Argentine President Javier Milei in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jan. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Jan. 19-25, 2024
Brazilians began gearing up for the return of Carnival with street parties and samba school rehearsals. The world-famous event officially kicks off on Feb. 9th.
Efrus, a 4-year-old Jack Russell terrier, surfs the waves in the Pacific waters off Peru.
Argentina’s largest labor union organized a one-day general strike protesting President Javier Milei’s decree targeting unions as well as his proposals for economic and labor law changes. It was Argentina’s first general strike in four years, and is also the quickest ever to be organized in a president’s term since the return of democracy in 1983.
A judge conditionally released U.S. rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine after he was arrested in the Dominican Republic on domestic violence charges.
Children in Chile were treated to a summer day activity where organizers blanketed a court with soap foam and handed out ice cream.
This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The selection was curated by photo editor Anita Baca in Mexico City.
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