Top photos from Latin America and the Caribbean
A drag queen known as Raul poses for a photo during the annual Gay Pride parade marking LGBTQ+ Pride Month, in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
June 20-26, 2025
Chileans got dressed up for a Gay Pride parade, cricket players from Australia and West Indies faced off on the Caribbean island of Barbados and Indigenous people in Bolivia and Ecuador marked the Southern Hemisphere’s winter solstice.
Colombians who pick up trash to sell as recycled material blanketed Bogota’s main plaza with plastic bottles to protest decreasing income and tougher conditions for scavengers, and Venezuelans carried Iranian flags at a demonstration organized by the government against Israel’s war on Iran. Tampa Bay Rays’ shortstop Wander Franco was found guilty of sexual abuse and received a 2-year suspended sentence.
Australia’s captain Pat Cummins avoids a delivery of West Indies’ Jayden Seales during day one of the first cricket Test match at Kensington Stadium in Bridgetown, Barbados, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
Australia’s captain Pat Cummins avoids a delivery of West Indies’ Jayden Seales during day one of the first cricket Test match at Kensington Stadium in Bridgetown, Barbados, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
Recyclers lie on plastic bottles blanketing Plaza Bolivar in Bogota, Colombia, as part of a protest against what recyclers consider to be too low a price paid to them by companies that buy recycled materials, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Recyclers lie on plastic bottles blanketing Plaza Bolivar in Bogota, Colombia, as part of a protest against what recyclers consider to be too low a price paid to them by companies that buy recycled materials, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
A demonstrator holds Iranian and Venezuelan national flags during a government-organized march for peace amid the Israel-Iran war, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)
A demonstrator holds Iranian and Venezuelan national flags during a government-organized march for peace amid the Israel-Iran war, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)
Luis Santacruz looks out from his makeshift home during cold weather in downtown Montevideo, Uruguay, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)
Luis Santacruz looks out from his makeshift home during cold weather in downtown Montevideo, Uruguay, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)
Aymara Indigenous people hold up their hands to receive the first rays of sunlight in celebration of the Andean New Year 5533 marking the Southern Hemisphere’s winter solstice, in El Alto, Bolivia, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Aymara Indigenous people hold up their hands to receive the first rays of sunlight in celebration of the Andean New Year 5533 marking the Southern Hemisphere’s winter solstice, in El Alto, Bolivia, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
People ride bicycles over a drawing depicting Argentina’s former President Cristina Fernandez, outside her home where she is under house arrest serving a six-year prison sentence for corruption, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, June 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
People ride bicycles over a drawing depicting Argentina’s former President Cristina Fernandez, outside her home where she is under house arrest serving a six-year prison sentence for corruption, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, June 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Indigenous people dance during the traditional Inti Raymi, or Festival of the Sun, coinciding with the winter solstice in Cotacachi, Ecuador, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
Indigenous people dance during the traditional Inti Raymi, or Festival of the Sun, coinciding with the winter solstice in Cotacachi, Ecuador, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
A man rescues a duck after a deadly landslide was triggered by heavy rain in Bello, Antioquia state, Colombia, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Fredy Amariles)
A man rescues a duck after a deadly landslide was triggered by heavy rain in Bello, Antioquia state, Colombia, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Fredy Amariles)
Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco covers his face as his lawyers Teodosio Jaquez and Irina Ventura address the court during his trial on charges of sexual abuse of a minor, in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, Monday, June 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Ricardo Hernandez)
Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco covers his face as his lawyers Teodosio Jaquez and Irina Ventura address the court during his trial on charges of sexual abuse of a minor, in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, Monday, June 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Ricardo Hernandez)
Australia’s captain Pat Cummins avoids a delivery of West Indies’ Jayden Seales during day one of the first cricket Test match at Kensington Stadium in Bridgetown, Barbados, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
Australia’s captain Pat Cummins avoids a delivery of West Indies’ Jayden Seales during day one of the first cricket Test match at Kensington Stadium in Bridgetown, Barbados, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
Recyclers lie on plastic bottles blanketing Plaza Bolivar in Bogota, Colombia, as part of a protest against what recyclers consider to be too low a price paid to them by companies that buy recycled materials, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Recyclers lie on plastic bottles blanketing Plaza Bolivar in Bogota, Colombia, as part of a protest against what recyclers consider to be too low a price paid to them by companies that buy recycled materials, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
A demonstrator holds Iranian and Venezuelan national flags during a government-organized march for peace amid the Israel-Iran war, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)
A demonstrator holds Iranian and Venezuelan national flags during a government-organized march for peace amid the Israel-Iran war, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)
Luis Santacruz looks out from his makeshift home during cold weather in downtown Montevideo, Uruguay, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)
Luis Santacruz looks out from his makeshift home during cold weather in downtown Montevideo, Uruguay, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)
Aymara Indigenous people hold up their hands to receive the first rays of sunlight in celebration of the Andean New Year 5533 marking the Southern Hemisphere’s winter solstice, in El Alto, Bolivia, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Aymara Indigenous people hold up their hands to receive the first rays of sunlight in celebration of the Andean New Year 5533 marking the Southern Hemisphere’s winter solstice, in El Alto, Bolivia, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
People ride bicycles over a drawing depicting Argentina’s former President Cristina Fernandez, outside her home where she is under house arrest serving a six-year prison sentence for corruption, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, June 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
People ride bicycles over a drawing depicting Argentina’s former President Cristina Fernandez, outside her home where she is under house arrest serving a six-year prison sentence for corruption, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, June 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Indigenous people dance during the traditional Inti Raymi, or Festival of the Sun, coinciding with the winter solstice in Cotacachi, Ecuador, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
Indigenous people dance during the traditional Inti Raymi, or Festival of the Sun, coinciding with the winter solstice in Cotacachi, Ecuador, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
A man rescues a duck after a deadly landslide was triggered by heavy rain in Bello, Antioquia state, Colombia, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Fredy Amariles)
A man rescues a duck after a deadly landslide was triggered by heavy rain in Bello, Antioquia state, Colombia, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Fredy Amariles)
Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco covers his face as his lawyers Teodosio Jaquez and Irina Ventura address the court during his trial on charges of sexual abuse of a minor, in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, Monday, June 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Ricardo Hernandez)
Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco covers his face as his lawyers Teodosio Jaquez and Irina Ventura address the court during his trial on charges of sexual abuse of a minor, in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, Monday, June 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Ricardo Hernandez)
This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Latin America and the Caribbean.
The selection was curated by AP photo editor Leslie Mazoch based in Mexico City.
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