AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Nov. 10-16, 2023
It´s still spring in Brazil, but a dangerous heat wave is sweeping across large swathes of the country. Protesters gathered in Mexico City over the violent death of Jesús Ociel Baena, the first openly nonbinary person to assume a judicial post in Mexico. A heavily armed gang surrounded a hospital in Haiti, trapping women, children and newborns inside until police rescued them, according to the director of the medical center.
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 photojornalist Jorge Saenz in Asuncion.
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Caimans sit on the banks of the almost dried-up Bento Gomes River in the Pantanal wetlands near Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. Amid the high heat, wildfires are burning widely in the Pantanal biome, the world's largest tropical wetlands. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
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A hospital worker places his hand on a glass door within the clinic that was pierced by a bullet the previous day during an attack on the Fontaine Hospital Center in the Cité Soleil area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. A heavily armed gang surrounded the hospital on Wednesday, trapping women, children and newborns inside until police rescued them, according to the director of the medical center. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
A man cools off in a water fountain at Madureira Park amid a heat wave in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Boats lay in ruin in the aftermath of Hurricane Otis in Acapulco, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
A model wears a creation from the Apartamento 03 collection during the Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
A demonstrator holds a rainbow-colored fan during a protest over the violent deaths of a leading LGBTQ+ figure and partner, in Mexico City, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. Jesús Ociel Baena, the first openly nonbinary person to assume a judicial post in Mexico, was found dead Monday lying next to the body of Dorian Herrera at the home they shared in the central city of Aguascalientes. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
A homeless person sleeps next to a bicycle in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
People toss flower petals on the hearse carrying the remains of British-Chilean dancer and human rights activist Joan Jara during a funeral procession in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. Jara, the widow of the Chilean singer-songwriter Victor Jara (1932-1973) who was tortured and murdered during the first's days of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, died at the age of 96, according to her family. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Team Chile sings along during the playing of their national anthem at the start of their Little People World Cup soccer match against Peru, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Mexican singer Peso Pluma performs in concert at the Foro Sol in Mexico City, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Aurea Del Rosario)
