AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Birds fly over debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Otis in Acapulco, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Red Bull driver Sergio Perez of Mexico, front, crashes with Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc of Monaco after the start of the Formula One Mexico Grand Prix auto race at the Hermanos Rodriguez racetrack in Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
A voodoo believer possessed with a Gede spirit performs a cleansing for a woman during Day of the Dead celebrations at the National Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Followers of Vodou are marking the Fete Gede celebration of the spirits, equivalent to the Roman Catholic festival of All Saints Day. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
Migrants who had been waiting for temporary transit papers but failed to get them after waiting, some up to two months, leave Tapachula, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 30, 2023, as they make their way to the U.S. border. The migrants said they did not have the resources to pay for more food and lodging as they wait. (AP Photo/Edgar Clemente)
A man poses for a photo wearing a costume during a Muerteada parade in San Jose, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Mexicans in the Oaxacan town celebrate the traditional Muerteada, a theatrical recreation that is performed through the night of November 1 until the early morning of the following day, with dances and music parading through the streets, while telling the story of how a deceased person is resurrected with the help of a priest, a doctor and a spiritist. (AP Photo/Maria Alferez)
Argentine Walter Dotto, center, sits with his son, grandson and a friend, as they wait outside the Sambadrome for it to open its parking lot to put their camper in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Dotto said his family drove for four days from Argentina to support their soccer team Boca Juniors at the Copa Libertadores championship game on Nov. 4, even tough they don’t have tickets. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Argentina’s players head to the locker room at half time during a men’s team field hockey match against Chile at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Supporters of Carlos Fernando Galan, candidate for mayor of Bogota, celebrate early results after local and regional elections in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Demonstrators tear down a police barricade during a protest against a recently approved mining contract between the government and Canadian mining company First Quantum, in Panama City, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
People sit around a child’s tomb in the San Gregorio Atlapulco cemetery during Day of the Dead festivities on the outskirts of Mexico City, early Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. In a tradition that coincides with All Saints Day on Nov. 1 and All Souls Day on Nov. 2, families decorate graves with flowers and candles and spend the night in the cemetery, eating and drinking as they keep company with their dearly departed. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
Members of the Mexican women’s fencing foil team celebrate their bronze medal victory, at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Birds fly over debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Otis in Acapulco, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Birds fly over debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Otis in Acapulco, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Red Bull driver Sergio Perez of Mexico, front, crashes with Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc of Monaco after the start of the Formula One Mexico Grand Prix auto race at the Hermanos Rodriguez racetrack in Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Red Bull driver Sergio Perez of Mexico, front, crashes with Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc of Monaco after the start of the Formula One Mexico Grand Prix auto race at the Hermanos Rodriguez racetrack in Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
A voodoo believer possessed with a Gede spirit performs a cleansing for a woman during Day of the Dead celebrations at the National Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Followers of Vodou are marking the Fete Gede celebration of the spirits, equivalent to the Roman Catholic festival of All Saints Day. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
A voodoo believer possessed with a Gede spirit performs a cleansing for a woman during Day of the Dead celebrations at the National Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Followers of Vodou are marking the Fete Gede celebration of the spirits, equivalent to the Roman Catholic festival of All Saints Day. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
Migrants who had been waiting for temporary transit papers but failed to get them after waiting, some up to two months, leave Tapachula, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 30, 2023, as they make their way to the U.S. border. The migrants said they did not have the resources to pay for more food and lodging as they wait. (AP Photo/Edgar Clemente)
Migrants who had been waiting for temporary transit papers but failed to get them after waiting, some up to two months, leave Tapachula, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 30, 2023, as they make their way to the U.S. border. The migrants said they did not have the resources to pay for more food and lodging as they wait. (AP Photo/Edgar Clemente)
A man poses for a photo wearing a costume during a Muerteada parade in San Jose, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Mexicans in the Oaxacan town celebrate the traditional Muerteada, a theatrical recreation that is performed through the night of November 1 until the early morning of the following day, with dances and music parading through the streets, while telling the story of how a deceased person is resurrected with the help of a priest, a doctor and a spiritist. (AP Photo/Maria Alferez)
A man poses for a photo wearing a costume during a Muerteada parade in San Jose, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Mexicans in the Oaxacan town celebrate the traditional Muerteada, a theatrical recreation that is performed through the night of November 1 until the early morning of the following day, with dances and music parading through the streets, while telling the story of how a deceased person is resurrected with the help of a priest, a doctor and a spiritist. (AP Photo/Maria Alferez)
Argentine Walter Dotto, center, sits with his son, grandson and a friend, as they wait outside the Sambadrome for it to open its parking lot to put their camper in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Dotto said his family drove for four days from Argentina to support their soccer team Boca Juniors at the Copa Libertadores championship game on Nov. 4, even tough they don’t have tickets. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Argentine Walter Dotto, center, sits with his son, grandson and a friend, as they wait outside the Sambadrome for it to open its parking lot to put their camper in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Dotto said his family drove for four days from Argentina to support their soccer team Boca Juniors at the Copa Libertadores championship game on Nov. 4, even tough they don’t have tickets. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Argentina’s players head to the locker room at half time during a men’s team field hockey match against Chile at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Argentina’s players head to the locker room at half time during a men’s team field hockey match against Chile at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Supporters of Carlos Fernando Galan, candidate for mayor of Bogota, celebrate early results after local and regional elections in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Supporters of Carlos Fernando Galan, candidate for mayor of Bogota, celebrate early results after local and regional elections in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Demonstrators tear down a police barricade during a protest against a recently approved mining contract between the government and Canadian mining company First Quantum, in Panama City, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
Demonstrators tear down a police barricade during a protest against a recently approved mining contract between the government and Canadian mining company First Quantum, in Panama City, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
People sit around a child’s tomb in the San Gregorio Atlapulco cemetery during Day of the Dead festivities on the outskirts of Mexico City, early Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. In a tradition that coincides with All Saints Day on Nov. 1 and All Souls Day on Nov. 2, families decorate graves with flowers and candles and spend the night in the cemetery, eating and drinking as they keep company with their dearly departed. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
People sit around a child’s tomb in the San Gregorio Atlapulco cemetery during Day of the Dead festivities on the outskirts of Mexico City, early Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. In a tradition that coincides with All Saints Day on Nov. 1 and All Souls Day on Nov. 2, families decorate graves with flowers and candles and spend the night in the cemetery, eating and drinking as they keep company with their dearly departed. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
Members of the Mexican women’s fencing foil team celebrate their bronze medal victory, at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Members of the Mexican women’s fencing foil team celebrate their bronze medal victory, at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Oct 27 – Nov 2, 2023
The resort city of Acapulco is battered by a monster category 5 hurricane leaving it shell-shocked, while Mexico City plays host to the Mexico Grand Prix Formula One race with favorite son and local hero Sergio Perez being knocked out at the start of the race in a collision. People in Latin America commemorate All Saints Day and remember their dead loved ones. In Panama, protests continue against a copper mine has mobilized thousands and in Chile the Pan American Games coast into its last week.
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.
The selection was curated by photo editor Tomas Stargardter in Mexico City.
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