PICTURED: Editor selections from Latin America
This week in Latin America we saw images by Rodrigo Abd from the Peruvian Amazon community nicknamed "Venice of the Jungle" where residents live half the year on the water, with canoes replacing motorcycles as the most popular form of transport. From January to June, water overflows from a river that feeds the Amazon, flooding the northeastern jungle community of Belen.
AP photographer Dolores Ochoa took a tour of an abandoned prison in Ecuador bearing signs of its past. The walls are marked with words and colored murals, written and drawn over 139 years by prisoners ranging from chicken thieves to politicians. Rich and poor, innocent and guilty, inmates used the walls to record their days living in this human storage facility known as the Garcia Moreno Prison.
The four-block-long building with numerous wings has been abandoned since September, when the 2,600 prisoners living in a space originally built for just 300 were transferred to a larger and more modern penitentiary.
In this April 19, 2015 photo, children fish from their home sitting just above the water line in the Belen neighborhood of Iquitos, a community in Peru's Amazon nicknamed "Venice of the Jungle." Along with the homes, the community boasts a Roman Catholic and various evangelical churches. It even has bordellos, discotheques, lumber mills and casinos. Many inhabitants work in a market in a nearby area that never floods, selling shad and other fish they catch in the river. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Left-wing groups, governments and trade unions staged rallies around the world Friday to mark International Workers Day. Most events were peaceful protests for workers' rights and world peace.
The Calbuco volcano erupted again on Thursday, sending dark burst of ash and hot rock billowing into the air and prompting Chilean officials to order new evacuation of nearby residents. The eruptions at the Calbuco are the first in more than four decades. About 4,500 people have been evacuated since the Calbuco roared back to life on April 22, sending ash about 11 miles (18 kilometers) into the sky.
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This gallery was curated by photo editor Anita Baca in Mexico City.
In this Saturday, April 25, 2015 photo, a rainbow is seen over a field with the Huayna Potosi mountain in the background as a bus drives by near Batallas, Bolivia, . (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
In this Friday, May 1, 2015 photo, Alejo Lopez, 62, sits against the cabbage he sells at the Oriental market in Managua, Nicaragua. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
In this April 9, 2015 photo, a child's shoe hangs in the doorway of a cell at the now empty Garcia Moreno Prison, during a guided tour for the public in Quito, Ecuador. Tour guides tell the story of a prisoner who in a jealous rage strangled his wife to death and then hung himself in front of their two children during a family visit years ago. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
In this Thursday, April 30, 2015 photo, a thick plume pours from the Calbuco volcano, near Puerto Varas, Chile. The volcano erupted again on Thursday, sending dark burst of ash and hot rock billowing into the air and prompting Chilean officials to order new evacuation of nearby residents. The eruptions at the Calbuco are the first in more than four decades. About 4,500 people have been evacuated since the Calbuco roared back to life on April 22, sending ash about 11 miles (18 kilometers) into the sky. (AP Photo/David Cortes Serey/ Agencia Uno) CHILE OUT - NO USAR EN CHILE
In this Tuesday, April 28, 2015 photo, Miss Universe Paulina Vega, from Colombia, jokingly sticks her tongue out at photographers from a car after visiting patients at a military hospital in Bogota, Colombia. Vega is in her native country for her first official visit since she was crowned Miss Universe in January. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
In this Friday, May 1, 2015 photo, a man holds an effigy of Guatemalan Vice President Roxana Baldetti as it burns, during the May Day march in front of the National Palace in Guatemala City. Union workers gathered to protest against the recent corruption scandal that involves Baldetti 's private secretary, who has been identified by the authorities as the alleged ringleader of an organization dedicated to defrauding the state through corruption and theft. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
In this Friday, May 1, 2015 photo, Venezuela first lady Cilia Flores wears a jacket designed with the colors of the country's national flag, at a May Day rally in Caracas, Venezuela. Flores' jacket is embroidered with her name and official title, "Primera Combatiente." Instead of first lady, Flores goes by the title, "first combatant." (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
In this Wednesday, April 29, 2015 photo, Lilian Tintori, the wife of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, holds up a birthday, celebrating her husband's 44th birthday with supporters at Plaza Brion, in Caracas Venezuela. Locked up and denounced by Venezuela's government as a terrorist, Lopez may be out of sight, but he is not out of mind. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
In this Friday, May 1, 2015 photo, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, left, and Cuba' President Raul Castro, acknowledge marchers as they parade past, marking May Day in Revolution Square, in Havana, Cuba. Thousands of people converged on the plaza for the traditional march, led this year by the two leaders. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
In this Friday, May 1, 2015 photo, a demonstrator with his face painted with an anarchist symbol attends the annual May Day march in Santiago, Chile. Rallies were staged around the world Friday to mark International Workers Day, also known as May Day. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
In this Thursday, April 30, 2015 photo, vendor Carmen Diaz, 84, is pulled by a market porter as she makes her way home at the end of her work day at the Oriental Market in Managua, Nicaragua. Known as ¿Chanita,¿ Diaz has worked since she was 8-years-old at the market, where she sells a hodgepodge of household items that include small piggy banks, coat hooks and liquid cleaners. Diaz has a herniated disc, and for the past two years has paid porters 10 cordobas (about .40 cents) to carry her to and from her stall on their carts used for transporting market goods. Friday is International Workers Day around the world, also known as May Day. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
In this Sunday, April 26, 2015 photo, descendants of American Southerners Philip Logan and his wife Eloiza Logan, pose for pictures during a party to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War, in Santa Barbara d'Oeste, Brazil. Thousands turn out every year, including many of those who trace their ancestry back to the dozens of families who, enticed by the Brazilian government¿s offers of land grants, settled here from 1865 to around 1875, as well as country music enthusiasts, history buffs and locals with a hankering for buttermilk biscuits. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
In this Friday, May 1, 2015 photo, a woman dressed in the traditional outfit of a Haitian agricultural worker, poses for a selfie before the start of a May Day parade, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Left-wing groups, governments and trade unions were staging rallies around the world Friday to mark International Workers Day, also known as May Day. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
In this Friday, May 1, 2015 photo, a street beggar who calls himself, "The General," shouts slogans against the government of Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos during a May Day march near Bolivar Plaza in Bogota, Colombia. The man is a fixture in Bolivar Plaza, wearing a military regalia costume, and can be spotted at various protests in the capital throughout the year. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
In this Tuesday, April 28, 2015 photo, people of Armenian descent and supporters commemorate what historians estimate to be the slaughter of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks, carrying flags during a demonstration outside the University of Buenos Aires Law building in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Last April 24 marked the day when the mass killings started with deportations and forced marches in 1915 as Ottoman officials worried that the Christian Armenians would side with Russia, its enemy in World War I. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
