PICTURED: Editor selections from Latin America
Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in Mexico City to demand that authorities find 43 missing college students. The march was held on a day traditionally reserved for the celebration of Mexico's 1910-1917 Revolution. Protests turned violent when demonstrators clashed with riot police near the capital's international airport and later when they tried to storm the national palace. Demonstrators were arrested and photojournalists attacked.
Honduran beauty queen Maria Jose Alvarado was killed along with her sister when the sister's jealous boyfriend opened fire on both of them. In Peru, meanwhile, Illegal gold miners were ejected once more from the Madre de Dios region, less than a month before Peru plays host to global climate talks.
In Mexico, local soccer leagues were in full swing with America's star Oribe Peralta going all out to head a soccer ball in a match against Atlas. The semi-finals of the Copa Sudamericana between Boca Juniors and River Plate filled Argentina's Bombonera stadium to the brim. In Brazil, a double rainbow was seen over the memorial dedicated to former Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek.
In this Nov. 20, 2014 photo, Keyling Enamorado, a friend of slain beauty queen Maria Jose Alvarado, cries on Maria's coffin in Santa Barbara, Honduras. Grieving family members laid to rest the Honduran beauty queen and her sister, Sofia, after the women were shot to death in what police say was a jealous rage by the sister's boyfriend. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
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This gallery was curated by photo editor Tomas Stargardter in Mexico City.
In this Nov. 22, 2014 photo, a student wearing white clown makeup with the Spanish word for "justice" written on the side of his face, stands outside the Attorney General's office, in Mexico City, during a protest demanding the release of students arrested two days earlier, following a massive gathering in the Zocalo. Tens of thousands marched to the capital's main plaza Thursday, demanding that authorities find 43 missing college students, seeking to pressure the government on a day normally reserved for the celebration of Mexico's 1910-17 Revolution. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
In this Nov. 20, 2014 photo, protestors face off against federal police over barriers surrounding the National Palace in Mexico City. Protesters marched in the capital city to demand authorities find 43 missing college students, seeking to pressure the government. Mexico officially lists more than 20 thousand people as having gone missing since the start of the country's drug war in 2006, and the search for the missing students has turned up other, unrelated mass graves. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
In this Nov. 20, 2014 photo, scores of riot police march to confront protesters near the airport in Mexico City,Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014. Protesters, some with their faces covered in masks or bandannas, scuffled with police as they tried to block a main expressway to the Mexico City international airport. Protesters hurled rocks and fireworks at the police, at least one of whom was hit by the projectiles. Protesters marched in Mexico City to demand authorities find 43 missing students Thursday, a day traditionally reserved for the celebration of the country¿s 1910-1917 Revolution. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
In this Nov. 20, 2014 photo, a riot police officer falls after protesters threw molotov cocktails at them near the airport in Mexico City,Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014. Mexico City is bracing for demonstrations as caravans of students and family members of 43 missing college students converged on the capital after several days crisscrossing the country. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
In this Nov. 21, 2014 photo, Ines Paz stops in the street to pose for a picture with his chickens in Santa Barbara, Honduras. Paz, 71, says he sells about six of his chickens a day, and charges $6 dollars each. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
In this Nov. 12, 2014 photo, policemen use their shields to protect themselves from dust clouds stirred by a landing helicopter, after taking part in an operation to eradicate illegal gold mining camps in the area known as La Pampa, in Peru's Madre de Dios region. Less than a month before Peru plays host to global climate talks, the government sent a battalion of police into the southeastern jungles to dismantle illegal gold-mining mining camps. Peru first criminalized unlicensed gold mining in 2012 but only began enforcing the law vigorously this year with serious manpower and explosives. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
In this Nov. 7, 2014 photo, a man holds Peruvian quinoa, part of 23 metric tons to be burned in Guaqui, Bolivia. International demand for quinoa continues to boom, and that¿s fueling an increasingly bitter commercial feud between Bolivia and Peru, the two main producers of the Andean ¿superfood.¿ As Peru boosts production of cheaper factory-farmed quinoa, the grain is increasingly being smuggled into landlocked Bolivia to be mixed with, and sometimes sold as, organic quinoa _ Bolivia¿s specialty, growers and government officials say. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
In this Nov. 22, 2014 photo, America's Oribe Peralta, left, heads the ball against Luis Venegas of Atlas during a Mexican soccer league match in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Christian Palma)
In this Nov. 20, 2014 photo, Boca Juniors' Andres Chavez, left, fights for the ball with River Plate's Jonatan Maidana during a Copa Sudamericana semi-finals soccer match in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
In this Nov. 17, 2014 photo, a rainbow is seen over the JK Memorial in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday. The JK Memorial was designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer, inaugurated on September 12, 1981 and is dedicated to former Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek, founder of Brasilia. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
