AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Aug 24 - Aug 31, 2023
Indigenous people in Brazil march in favor of the demarcation of Indigenous lands. In Ecuador, juveniles look out from behind a guarded area of the Virgilio Guerrero detention center after inmates were evacuated to a patio due to a fire at the center. In Montevideo, Uruguay, Adrian Dargelos, vocalist of the Argentine rock band Babasonicos, is mobbed by fans as he sings during the first show of their Babasonicos Tour 2023. And in Chile, the Supreme Court awards degrees to eight law students who were disappeared and executed during Pinochet´s regime. He handed their diplomas to their living relatives.
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 Associated Press Photo Editor Tomas Stargardter in Mexico City.
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Indigenous people from across the country march in favor of the demarcation of Indigenous lands, and against a law before the Supreme Court that includes a time frame, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. The time frame refers to the stipulation that Indigenous people must have been physically occupying their ancestral lands before Oct. 1988, when Brazil's constitution was signed, in order for their territorial claims to remain valid today. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
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A juvenile looks out from behind a guarded area of the Virgilio Guerrero detention center after inmates were evacuated to a patio due to a fire at the center set by a group of detainees, in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
People light candles in front of portraits of people who were detained and disappeared during Gen. Augusto Pinochet's 1973-1990 dictatorship, and which are being projected on the facade of the La Moneda, presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023, on the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Motorcycle riders hold a caravan to protest the increase in gas prices in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Aug. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
An avocado vender works in a street flooded by rain brought by Hurricane Idalia in Havana, Cuba, early Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Adrian Dargelos, vocalist of Argentine rock band Babasonicos, sings during the first show of their Babasonicos Tour 2023 in Montevideo, Uruguay, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)
James Rodriguez of Brazil's Sao Paulo takes his shot, and misses during the penalty shootout of a Copa Sudamericana quarterfinal, second leg soccer match against Ecuador's Liga Deportiva Universitaria at Morumbi stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. Ecuador's Liga Deportiva Universitaria won the shootout due to James' miss and advanced to the semifinals of the tournament. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Relatives of Fernando Alvarez Castillo who was detained and disappeared during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, embrace after receiving Fernando's posthumous law degree at the Supreme Court in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. The Supreme Court awarded degrees to 8 law students who were disappeared and executed during Pinochet's regime, and handed their diplomas to their living relatives in an event that is part of the 50th commemoration of the military coup that overthrew Chilean president Salvador Allende. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Youths play a pick-up game of basketball in the San Agustin neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
A man walks on Marquez beach where garbage dumped illegally by trash trucks covers the banks of the Chillon River, below, and the Pacific Ocean, top, as he searches for items to use or sell in Callao, Peru, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
