PICTURED: Editor selections from Latin America
During the week that was in Latin America, Mexico underwent its latest spasm of violence as students, politicians and police eyed each other from opposite sides while 43 missing students failed to reappear alive or dead.
Across Latin America, people gathered at cemeteries to observe their day of the dead celebrations. Peruvians danced and played music atop graves and Chileans in full costume rode the subway in Santiago. Mexicans dressed up as "Catrinas," an early 1900s version of lady death.
Britain's Prince Charles received a peck in the cheek as he and his wife Camilla arrived Colombia as part of a nine-day tour of Latin America.
In this Nov. 1, 2014 photo, youths play baseball as the sun sets in El Crucero, Nicaragua, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
In Chile, the first medical marijuana crop is allowed to be seeded for the benefit of the terminally ill.
Communist-run Cuba is in the midst of a campaign to drive up a birth rate that has fallen to the lowest in Latin America.
And in Brazil, the army had a live-fire exercise during rapid deployment maneuvers in the central-western region of Latin America' biggest country, while Nicaraguans youths play ball at sunset.
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This gallery was curated by photo editor Tomas Stargardter in Mexico City.
In this Nov. 1, 2014 photo, a woman dressed as the iconic Mexican "Catrina" poses for photographers as she gathers with other women in costume in an attempt to set a record for the most Catrinas in one place during Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico City. The figure of a skeleton wearing an elegant broad-brimmed hat was first done as a satirical engraving by artist Jose Guadalupe Posada sometime between 1910 and his death in 1913. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
In this Nov. 1, 2014 photo, musicians play at the Paz y Libertad cemetery during Day of the Dead festivities in the Comas shantytown of Lima, Peru. Families gather at the graves of thier departed relatives at this time of the year, a tradition that coincides with All Saints Day and All Souls Day on Nov. 1 and 2. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
In this Nov. 1, 2014 photo, Fortunata Cisneros, 84, waits with flowers for her daughter to visit her father's niche during Day of the Dead celebrations at the cemetery in Huamanga, Peru. Families gather at the graves of their departed relatives at this time of the year, a tradition that coincides with All Saints Day and All Souls Day on Nov. 1 and 2. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
In this Oct. 31, 2014 photo, people visit a display of skeletal figures, erected as part of Day of the Dead festivities in the Zocalo, in Mexico City. The Day of the Dead holiday honors the dead as friends and families gather in cemeteries to decorate their loved ones' graves and hold vigil through the night on Nov. 1 and 2. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
In this Oct. 31, 2014 photo, a man dressed as DC Comics super villain The Joker, points a toy gun as he strikes a pose in a subway car, in Santiago, Chile. (AP Photo / Luis Hidalgo)
This Nov. 19, 2013 photo, released by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), shows sculptures unearthed by investigators at the Teotihuacan archeological site in Mexico. Mexican archaeologists have concluded a yearslong exploration of a tunnel sealed nearly 2,000 years ago at the ancient city of Teotihuacan and found thousands of relics. Teotihuacan dominated central Mexico centuries before the rise of the Aztecs in the 14th century. (AP Photo/Proyecto Tlalocan, INAH)
In this Oct. 30, 2014 photo, a girl kisses Britain's Prince Charles during a visit to La Macarena, Colombia. Prince Charles and his wife Camilla are in Colombia as part of a nine-day tour of Latin America. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
In this Oct. 29, 2014 photo, an Aymara Indian woman models a creation by a local designer at a Chola fashion show in La Paz, Bolivia. The fashion show is designed to promote the Andean style and beauty of Aymara women, who are commonly called Cholitas in Bolivian slang. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
In this Oct. 22, 2014 photo, Cecilia Heyder, 47, who suffers from systemic lupus and was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011, poses for a photo with her pet bird, in her home in Santiago, Chile. A Chilean municipality planted the country¿s first medical marijuana on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014, as part of a pilot program aimed to help ease the pain of cancer patients. Some Chileans, like Heyder, already have been using marijuana for pain relief, flouting the law or finding legal cracks in the ban. ¿I¿m neither a trafficker nor a criminal. The fact that I¿m ill shouldn¿t mean I have to hide,¿ said Heyder. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
In this Oct. 27, 2014 photo, a pregnant woman is helped by another as she suffers from labor pains, while walking in front of a painting of Fidel Castro at a special maternity unit for high-risk pregnancies in Havana, Cuba. The island nation is in the midst of a broad campaign to drive up a birth rate that has fallen to the lowest in Latin America after years of fewer births, that mean that the number of working-age people in Cuba is expected to shrink starting next year, terrible news for an island attempting to jumpstart its stagnant centrally planned economy. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
In this Oct. 28, 2014 photo, dancers perform during the opening of the 24th International Ballet Festival at the 'Karl Marx' theater in Havana, Cuba. The International Ballet Festival of Havana is held every two years and will take place from October 28 to November 7, with more than twenty performances and 10 world premieres planned. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
In this Oct. 29, 2014 photo, Brazilian Marines shoot an anti-aircraft gun during military training in the Formosa Training Camp, in the state of Goias, north of Brasilia, Brazil. Troops have wrapped 12-days of rapid deployment maneuvers in the central-western region of Latin America' biggest country. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
In this Oct. 29, 2014 photo, Students and teachers attack with rocks the Guerrero State Governor's house, known as "Casa Guerrero", in Chilpancingo, Mexico. Forensic experts combed a gully in southern Mexico on Tuesday for the remains of 43 missing students, as frustration mounted among relatives of both the disappeared and the detained for the lack of answers more than a month into the investigation. The rural teachers college students disappeared after an attack by police in nearby Iguala. Authorities say it was ordered by former Mayor Jose Luis Abarca and carried out by police working with the Guerreros Unidos cartel. (AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez)
In this Oct. 28, 2014 photo, people place lit candles around flowers spelling out the Spanish word "Peace," on the ground in front of the burnt town hall in Iguala, Mexico. Forensic experts combed a gully in southern Mexico on Tuesday for the remains of 43 missing students, as frustration mounted among relatives of both the disappeared and the detained for the lack of answers more than a month into the investigation. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
In this Nov. 2, 2014 photo, a family leaves the cemetery under a rainbow after decorating the niches of her loved ones during the Day of the Dead celebrations in Huamanga, Peru. Families gather at the graves of their departed relatives at this time of the year, a tradition that coincides with All Saints Day and All Souls Day on Nov. 1 and 2. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
