AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Monsignor Victor Manuel Fernandez, archbishop of La Plata, officiates Mass at the Cathedral in La Plata, Argentina, Sunday, July 9, 2023. Fernandez was appointed by Pope Francis to head the Holy See’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Cuba’s Lazaro Martinez competes during the men’s athletics triple jump final for gold at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, El Salvador, Friday, July 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
Pictures of people disappeared during the Gen. Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, are displayed at the Memory and Human Rights museum in Santiago, Chile, Friday, July 7, 2023. Almost half a century after the military coup in Chile, the government of President Gabriel Boric will launch a National Search Plan for more than 1,000 victims of forced disappearances. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Police stand guard outside the Electoral Court building as demonstrators march to support the electoral process in Guatemala City, on a rainy Saturday, July 8, 2023. Chief Justice Silvia Valdes Quezada issued an order blocking the certification of the results for the first-round presidential June 25th election, late Friday. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Cuba’s Thalia Morenos celebrates with teammate Laura Suarez, their victory over Colombia, at the end of the women’s volleyball team final for the bronze medal, at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, El Salvador, Saturday, July 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
Stuffed fighting cocks are displayed by breeders as they march against proposed laws to ban cockfighting, bullfighting, and other animal blood sports, saying that the ban will affect their cultural traditions and their economy in what they say are traditional Mexican events, at the Angel de la Independencia, in Mexico City, Thursday, July 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
Juan Angel Napout, the former president of soccer’s South American governing body, is received by relatives and friends after landing at Silvio Pettirossi Airport in Luque, Paraguay, Friday, July 7, 2023. Napout was released from a federal prison in Miami and deported to Paraguay after serving 5 1/2 years of his sentence for a Dec. 22, 2017 conviction on one count of racketeering conspiracy and two counts of wire fraud conspiracy. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
A girl takes part in a soccer training program run by the non-governmental organization “Cara a Cara” or Face to Face, on a soccer court in the Complexo do Alemao favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, July 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Mateo Carreras, of Argentina’s Los Pumas, stands on the field at the end of a rugby championship against New Zealand’s All Blacks at Malvinas Argentinas stadium in Mendoza, Argentina, Saturday, July 8, 2023. All Blacks won 41-12. (AP Photo/Nicolas Aguilera)
Candelaria Cabrera, top right, holds a ball as she and her soccer team Huracán de Chabas female pose for photos on the field prior to their match against Alumni in Arequito, Santa Fe province, Argentina, Monday, June 19, 2023. Candelaria’s struggle to keep playing was a turning point in Argentina’s women’s soccer. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Seen from above, a life-size mannequin representing bricklayer Amarildo de Souza, a resident of the Rocinha favela who disappeared 10 years ago, lays under netting on Copacabana beach during a protest against his disappearance in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, July 13, 2023. The protest by the Rio de Paz non-governmental organization calls attention to the 10th anniversary of the stonemason murdered by police and whose remains are yet to be discovered. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Monsignor Victor Manuel Fernandez, archbishop of La Plata, officiates Mass at the Cathedral in La Plata, Argentina, Sunday, July 9, 2023. Fernandez was appointed by Pope Francis to head the Holy See’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Monsignor Victor Manuel Fernandez, archbishop of La Plata, officiates Mass at the Cathedral in La Plata, Argentina, Sunday, July 9, 2023. Fernandez was appointed by Pope Francis to head the Holy See’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Cuba’s Lazaro Martinez competes during the men’s athletics triple jump final for gold at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, El Salvador, Friday, July 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
Cuba’s Lazaro Martinez competes during the men’s athletics triple jump final for gold at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, El Salvador, Friday, July 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
Pictures of people disappeared during the Gen. Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, are displayed at the Memory and Human Rights museum in Santiago, Chile, Friday, July 7, 2023. Almost half a century after the military coup in Chile, the government of President Gabriel Boric will launch a National Search Plan for more than 1,000 victims of forced disappearances. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Pictures of people disappeared during the Gen. Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, are displayed at the Memory and Human Rights museum in Santiago, Chile, Friday, July 7, 2023. Almost half a century after the military coup in Chile, the government of President Gabriel Boric will launch a National Search Plan for more than 1,000 victims of forced disappearances. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Police stand guard outside the Electoral Court building as demonstrators march to support the electoral process in Guatemala City, on a rainy Saturday, July 8, 2023. Chief Justice Silvia Valdes Quezada issued an order blocking the certification of the results for the first-round presidential June 25th election, late Friday. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Police stand guard outside the Electoral Court building as demonstrators march to support the electoral process in Guatemala City, on a rainy Saturday, July 8, 2023. Chief Justice Silvia Valdes Quezada issued an order blocking the certification of the results for the first-round presidential June 25th election, late Friday. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Cuba’s Thalia Morenos celebrates with teammate Laura Suarez, their victory over Colombia, at the end of the women’s volleyball team final for the bronze medal, at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, El Salvador, Saturday, July 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
Cuba’s Thalia Morenos celebrates with teammate Laura Suarez, their victory over Colombia, at the end of the women’s volleyball team final for the bronze medal, at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, El Salvador, Saturday, July 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
Stuffed fighting cocks are displayed by breeders as they march against proposed laws to ban cockfighting, bullfighting, and other animal blood sports, saying that the ban will affect their cultural traditions and their economy in what they say are traditional Mexican events, at the Angel de la Independencia, in Mexico City, Thursday, July 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
Stuffed fighting cocks are displayed by breeders as they march against proposed laws to ban cockfighting, bullfighting, and other animal blood sports, saying that the ban will affect their cultural traditions and their economy in what they say are traditional Mexican events, at the Angel de la Independencia, in Mexico City, Thursday, July 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
Juan Angel Napout, the former president of soccer’s South American governing body, is received by relatives and friends after landing at Silvio Pettirossi Airport in Luque, Paraguay, Friday, July 7, 2023. Napout was released from a federal prison in Miami and deported to Paraguay after serving 5 1/2 years of his sentence for a Dec. 22, 2017 conviction on one count of racketeering conspiracy and two counts of wire fraud conspiracy. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
Juan Angel Napout, the former president of soccer’s South American governing body, is received by relatives and friends after landing at Silvio Pettirossi Airport in Luque, Paraguay, Friday, July 7, 2023. Napout was released from a federal prison in Miami and deported to Paraguay after serving 5 1/2 years of his sentence for a Dec. 22, 2017 conviction on one count of racketeering conspiracy and two counts of wire fraud conspiracy. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
A girl takes part in a soccer training program run by the non-governmental organization “Cara a Cara” or Face to Face, on a soccer court in the Complexo do Alemao favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, July 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
A girl takes part in a soccer training program run by the non-governmental organization “Cara a Cara” or Face to Face, on a soccer court in the Complexo do Alemao favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, July 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Mateo Carreras, of Argentina’s Los Pumas, stands on the field at the end of a rugby championship against New Zealand’s All Blacks at Malvinas Argentinas stadium in Mendoza, Argentina, Saturday, July 8, 2023. All Blacks won 41-12. (AP Photo/Nicolas Aguilera)
Mateo Carreras, of Argentina’s Los Pumas, stands on the field at the end of a rugby championship against New Zealand’s All Blacks at Malvinas Argentinas stadium in Mendoza, Argentina, Saturday, July 8, 2023. All Blacks won 41-12. (AP Photo/Nicolas Aguilera)
Candelaria Cabrera, top right, holds a ball as she and her soccer team Huracán de Chabas female pose for photos on the field prior to their match against Alumni in Arequito, Santa Fe province, Argentina, Monday, June 19, 2023. Candelaria’s struggle to keep playing was a turning point in Argentina’s women’s soccer. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Candelaria Cabrera, top right, holds a ball as she and her soccer team Huracán de Chabas female pose for photos on the field prior to their match against Alumni in Arequito, Santa Fe province, Argentina, Monday, June 19, 2023. Candelaria’s struggle to keep playing was a turning point in Argentina’s women’s soccer. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
July 7 – July 13, 2023
People in Rio de Janeiro remembered the disappeared with an art installation on Copacabana Beach. Athletes from Central America and the Caribbean competed in regional games. Tensions in Guatemala heightened as the country’s highest court barred authorities from suspending a presidential candidate. In Mexico, breeders marched against proposed laws to ban cockfighting, bullfighting and other animal blood sports.
This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Monsignor Victor Manuel Fernandez, archbishop of La Plata, officiates Mass at the Cathedral in La Plata, Argentina, Sunday, July 9, 2023. Fernandez was appointed by Pope Francis to head the Holy See’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Monsignor Victor Manuel Fernandez, archbishop of La Plata, officiates Mass at the Cathedral in La Plata, Argentina, Sunday, July 9, 2023. Fernandez was appointed by Pope Francis to head the Holy See’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Cuba’s Lazaro Martinez competes during the men’s athletics triple jump final for gold at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, El Salvador, Friday, July 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
Cuba’s Lazaro Martinez competes during the men’s athletics triple jump final for gold at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, El Salvador, Friday, July 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
Pictures of people disappeared during the Gen. Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, are displayed at the Memory and Human Rights museum in Santiago, Chile, Friday, July 7, 2023. Almost half a century after the military coup in Chile, the government of President Gabriel Boric will launch a National Search Plan for more than 1,000 victims of forced disappearances. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Pictures of people disappeared during the Gen. Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, are displayed at the Memory and Human Rights museum in Santiago, Chile, Friday, July 7, 2023. Almost half a century after the military coup in Chile, the government of President Gabriel Boric will launch a National Search Plan for more than 1,000 victims of forced disappearances. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Police stand guard outside the Electoral Court building as demonstrators march to support the electoral process in Guatemala City, on a rainy Saturday, July 8, 2023. Chief Justice Silvia Valdes Quezada issued an order blocking the certification of the results for the first-round presidential June 25th election, late Friday. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Police stand guard outside the Electoral Court building as demonstrators march to support the electoral process in Guatemala City, on a rainy Saturday, July 8, 2023. Chief Justice Silvia Valdes Quezada issued an order blocking the certification of the results for the first-round presidential June 25th election, late Friday. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Cuba’s Thalia Morenos celebrates with teammate Laura Suarez, their victory over Colombia, at the end of the women’s volleyball team final for the bronze medal, at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, El Salvador, Saturday, July 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
Cuba’s Thalia Morenos celebrates with teammate Laura Suarez, their victory over Colombia, at the end of the women’s volleyball team final for the bronze medal, at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, El Salvador, Saturday, July 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
Stuffed fighting cocks are displayed by breeders as they march against proposed laws to ban cockfighting, bullfighting, and other animal blood sports, saying that the ban will affect their cultural traditions and their economy in what they say are traditional Mexican events, at the Angel de la Independencia, in Mexico City, Thursday, July 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
Stuffed fighting cocks are displayed by breeders as they march against proposed laws to ban cockfighting, bullfighting, and other animal blood sports, saying that the ban will affect their cultural traditions and their economy in what they say are traditional Mexican events, at the Angel de la Independencia, in Mexico City, Thursday, July 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
Juan Angel Napout, the former president of soccer’s South American governing body, is received by relatives and friends after landing at Silvio Pettirossi Airport in Luque, Paraguay, Friday, July 7, 2023. Napout was released from a federal prison in Miami and deported to Paraguay after serving 5 1/2 years of his sentence for a Dec. 22, 2017 conviction on one count of racketeering conspiracy and two counts of wire fraud conspiracy. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
Juan Angel Napout, the former president of soccer’s South American governing body, is received by relatives and friends after landing at Silvio Pettirossi Airport in Luque, Paraguay, Friday, July 7, 2023. Napout was released from a federal prison in Miami and deported to Paraguay after serving 5 1/2 years of his sentence for a Dec. 22, 2017 conviction on one count of racketeering conspiracy and two counts of wire fraud conspiracy. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
A girl takes part in a soccer training program run by the non-governmental organization “Cara a Cara” or Face to Face, on a soccer court in the Complexo do Alemao favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, July 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
A girl takes part in a soccer training program run by the non-governmental organization “Cara a Cara” or Face to Face, on a soccer court in the Complexo do Alemao favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, July 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Mateo Carreras, of Argentina’s Los Pumas, stands on the field at the end of a rugby championship against New Zealand’s All Blacks at Malvinas Argentinas stadium in Mendoza, Argentina, Saturday, July 8, 2023. All Blacks won 41-12. (AP Photo/Nicolas Aguilera)
Mateo Carreras, of Argentina’s Los Pumas, stands on the field at the end of a rugby championship against New Zealand’s All Blacks at Malvinas Argentinas stadium in Mendoza, Argentina, Saturday, July 8, 2023. All Blacks won 41-12. (AP Photo/Nicolas Aguilera)
Candelaria Cabrera, top right, holds a ball as she and her soccer team Huracán de Chabas female pose for photos on the field prior to their match against Alumni in Arequito, Santa Fe province, Argentina, Monday, June 19, 2023. Candelaria’s struggle to keep playing was a turning point in Argentina’s women’s soccer. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Candelaria Cabrera, top right, holds a ball as she and her soccer team Huracán de Chabas female pose for photos on the field prior to their match against Alumni in Arequito, Santa Fe province, Argentina, Monday, June 19, 2023. Candelaria’s struggle to keep playing was a turning point in Argentina’s women’s soccer. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
The selection was curated by Associated Press photojournalist Jorge Saenz in Asuncion, Paraguay.
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