AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
An Indigenous man attends the opening ceremony of the 20th annual Free Land Indigenous Camp in Brasilia, Brazil, April 22, 2024. The 7-day event aims to show the unity of Brazil’s Indigenous peoples in their fight for the demarcation of their lands and their rights. (AP Photo/Luis Nova)
Demonstrators gather outside the Casa Rosada presidential palace during a march demanding more funding for public universities and to protest against austerity measures proposed by President Javier Milei, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Michel Patrick Boisvert, who was named interim prime minister by the cabinet of outgoing Prime Minister Ariel Henry, toasts during the swearing-in ceremony of the transitional council tasked with selecting a new prime minister and cabinet, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Denize Flerino wipes sweat from the brow of her son who is suffering from high fevers at a Doctors Without Borders emergency room in the Cite Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Police advance on protesters though smoke from a fire extinguisher and fireworks used by teachers protesting against forced retirement, in La Paz, Bolivia, April 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
A voter marks her ballot during a referendum proposed by President Daniel Noboa to endorse new security measures aimed at crack down on criminal gangs fueling escalating violence, in Quito, Ecuador, April 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
Honor guards stand as Chilean President Gabriel Boric welcomes Greece’s President Katerina Sakellaropoulou to La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, April 24, 2024. AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
A resident who did not want to be identified shows the gun she keeps at her home for self-defense as she poses for a photo in Rosario, Argentina, Monday, April 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Margarita Mendez, front left, drinks mate as her friend Cristina Chamorro breastfeeds in an outdoor kitchen in the Guaraní Indigenous community of Kaaguy Pora II, on the outskirts of Andresito, in Argentina’s Misiones Province, the center of the world’s maté production, April 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A parishioner’s cross is illuminated during an outdoor Mass marking the feast day of Saint George, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
An Indigenous man attends the opening ceremony of the 20th annual Free Land Indigenous Camp in Brasilia, Brazil, April 22, 2024. The 7-day event aims to show the unity of Brazil’s Indigenous peoples in their fight for the demarcation of their lands and their rights. (AP Photo/Luis Nova)
An Indigenous man attends the opening ceremony of the 20th annual Free Land Indigenous Camp in Brasilia, Brazil, April 22, 2024. The 7-day event aims to show the unity of Brazil’s Indigenous peoples in their fight for the demarcation of their lands and their rights. (AP Photo/Luis Nova)
Demonstrators gather outside the Casa Rosada presidential palace during a march demanding more funding for public universities and to protest against austerity measures proposed by President Javier Milei, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Demonstrators gather outside the Casa Rosada presidential palace during a march demanding more funding for public universities and to protest against austerity measures proposed by President Javier Milei, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Michel Patrick Boisvert, who was named interim prime minister by the cabinet of outgoing Prime Minister Ariel Henry, toasts during the swearing-in ceremony of the transitional council tasked with selecting a new prime minister and cabinet, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Michel Patrick Boisvert, who was named interim prime minister by the cabinet of outgoing Prime Minister Ariel Henry, toasts during the swearing-in ceremony of the transitional council tasked with selecting a new prime minister and cabinet, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Denize Flerino wipes sweat from the brow of her son who is suffering from high fevers at a Doctors Without Borders emergency room in the Cite Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Denize Flerino wipes sweat from the brow of her son who is suffering from high fevers at a Doctors Without Borders emergency room in the Cite Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Police advance on protesters though smoke from a fire extinguisher and fireworks used by teachers protesting against forced retirement, in La Paz, Bolivia, April 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Police advance on protesters though smoke from a fire extinguisher and fireworks used by teachers protesting against forced retirement, in La Paz, Bolivia, April 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
A voter marks her ballot during a referendum proposed by President Daniel Noboa to endorse new security measures aimed at crack down on criminal gangs fueling escalating violence, in Quito, Ecuador, April 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
A voter marks her ballot during a referendum proposed by President Daniel Noboa to endorse new security measures aimed at crack down on criminal gangs fueling escalating violence, in Quito, Ecuador, April 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
Honor guards stand as Chilean President Gabriel Boric welcomes Greece’s President Katerina Sakellaropoulou to La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, April 24, 2024. AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Honor guards stand as Chilean President Gabriel Boric welcomes Greece’s President Katerina Sakellaropoulou to La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, April 24, 2024. AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
A resident who did not want to be identified shows the gun she keeps at her home for self-defense as she poses for a photo in Rosario, Argentina, Monday, April 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A resident who did not want to be identified shows the gun she keeps at her home for self-defense as she poses for a photo in Rosario, Argentina, Monday, April 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Margarita Mendez, front left, drinks mate as her friend Cristina Chamorro breastfeeds in an outdoor kitchen in the Guaraní Indigenous community of Kaaguy Pora II, on the outskirts of Andresito, in Argentina’s Misiones Province, the center of the world’s maté production, April 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Margarita Mendez, front left, drinks mate as her friend Cristina Chamorro breastfeeds in an outdoor kitchen in the Guaraní Indigenous community of Kaaguy Pora II, on the outskirts of Andresito, in Argentina’s Misiones Province, the center of the world’s maté production, April 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A parishioner’s cross is illuminated during an outdoor Mass marking the feast day of Saint George, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
A parishioner’s cross is illuminated during an outdoor Mass marking the feast day of Saint George, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
April 19-25, 2024
A transitional council tasked with bringing political stability to gang-ravaged Haiti has been installed. Ecuadorians vote overwhelmingly for toughening the fight against gangs. Thousands of Indigenous people gather in Brazil’s capital to protest against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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 AP photojournalist Dolores Ochoa in Quito, Ecuador.
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