PICTURED: Editor selections from Latin America
TV comic and political neophyte Jimmy Morales was sworn in as Guatemala's president amid uncertainty over how he plans to run the Central American nation beset by entrenched poverty, rampant corruption and violent criminal gangs. Morales won office in a runoff Oct. 25 after huge anti-corruption demonstrations that helped force out his predecessor.
Nearly 200 Cuban migrants traveled by air and across land through Central America and into southern Mexico on Wednesday, resuming their long-delayed journey toward the United States after several months stranded in Costa Rica amid a diplomatic tiff with Nicaragua.
The air and bus bridge is the first stage of a pilot program to relieve a logjam of some 8,000 Cubans who have been trapped at the Costa Rican border with Nicaragua, which closed its frontier to them in November.
In this Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016 photo, a handcuffed Brayan Jimenez, the former president of the Guatemalan football federation, is escorted by police into a courthouse in Guatemala City. Jimenez has been a fugitive for a month after Guatemala issued warrants for his arrest last month. He faces extradition to the U.S. where he could face charges of money laundering and bribery. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
Associated Press photographer Felipe Dana created a collection of images about the artisanal miners and their craft as a work project for the 2015 World Press Photo Latin America masterclass held in Mexico City in December.
The area that Dana documented has been explored for diamonds since the time of slavery. Up to a few years ago, multinational mining companies extracted the stone without concern for the land or the Jequitinhonha River. Today, the devastated area known as Areinha is a no man's land where small groups of rural miners try their luck with artisan techniques.
Toby Price became the first Australian winner of the Dakar Rally motorbikes class.
"Being the first Australian to win the Dakar is just insane. Finishing the rally is already a triumph," Price said, after completing the 13th and final stage Saturday.
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This gallery was curated by photo editor Anita Baca in Mexico City.
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In this Monday, Jan. 11, 2016 photo, bullet holes riddle the walls of the second floor of a home that Mexican marines raided in their search for drug lord Joaquin ¿El Chapo¿ Guzman, in Los Mochis, Mexico. At 4:40 a.m. in a central neighborhood of the Pacific coast city, 17 marines began their operation dubbed "black swan." Guzman and his security chief traveled several blocks through the city's storm sewer system, accessed under the home, before popping out in the middle of an intersection. Federal police eventually found them on a highway outside of town, ending Guzman¿s flight six months after his escape from the same maximum security prison where he now sits. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
In this Jan. 5, 2016 photo, Angela Villon, a 51-year-old prostitute, activist, and congressional candidate, waits for clients in her room, at "El Botecito" brothel, in Callao, Peru. Villon became an activist in 2002 to fight abuse and violence against sex workers. Her room is adorned with one of her campaign posters. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
In this Jan. 5, 2016 photo, Angela Villon, a 51-year-old prostitute, activist, and congressional candidate, poses for a photo to show show the tattoo on the back of her shoulder, that reads in Spanish; "I use a condom," at "El Botecito" brothel, in Lima, Peru. Villon says she has raised and educated her four children with the profits of her job as a sex worker, and now wants to take her street knowledge to Peru's congress. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
In this Friday, Jan. 15, 2016, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, left, speaks with Henry Ramos, head of Venezuela's new opposition congress, prior to delivering his annual state of the nation report in Caracas, Venezuela. A veteran politician, Ramos was sworn in on Jan. 5 to replace outgoing legislative leader Diosdado Cabello, a former army officer widely seen as the revolution's enforcer. Ramos is now second in the line of succession after Maduro's vice president. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
In this Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016 photo, Cuban migrants organize their belongings at a temporary shelter in La Cruz, Costa Rica. After more than three months of being stranded in Costa Rica, 180 of the close to 8,000 Cuban migrants trapped here are finally expected to get their long-awaited trip north, toward the U.S. border. The first pilot flight took off from Costa Rica's Daniel Oduber airport in the northern city of Liberia as part of a regional agreement to overcome Nicaragua's refusal to let them through by land on their way north. (AP Photo/Enrique Martinez)
In this Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016 photo, Guatemala's new President Jimmy Morales waves to the crowd as his wife first lady Hilda Marroquin smiles after he was sworn at the National Theater in Guatemala City. The TV comic and political neophyte was inaugurated amid uncertainty over how he plans to run the Central American nation beset by entrenched poverty, corruption and violent criminal gangs. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
In this Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016 photo, a man arranges glass jar prayer candles before the start of a memorial service marking the sixth anniversary of the 2010 earthquake, at Titanyen, the mass burial site for victims of the quake, north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haitians gathered at prayer services to remember those who lost their lives. The government has said more than 300,000 people were killed, but the exact toll is unknown. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
In this Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016 photo, Australian motorbike rider Toby Price, of the Red Bull KTM Factory Team, sprays sparkling wine into his mouth after winning the 2016 Dakar Rally, in Rosario, Argentina. Price became the first Australian winner of the motorbikes class, almost 40 minutes ahead of KTM teammate Stefan Svitko of Slovakia. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
In this Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016 photo, spectators use a towel as protection from blowing sand during the tenth stage of the Dakar Rally, between Belen and La Rioja, Argentina. The world's toughest rally that includes four categories; car, bike, quad and truck, ended Saturday in Rosario. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
In this Nov. 19, 2015 photo, an artisanal miner shows the diamonds he and his group found in an abandoned mine in Areinha, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The area has been explored for the precious stone since the time of slavery, and up to a couple of years ago, multinational mining companies extracted the stone without care for the land or the Jequitinhonha river that crosses the region. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
This Nov. 18, 2015 photo shows an area that was destroyed by diamond mining at an abandoned mine in Areinha, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The devastated area known as Areinha is a no man¿s land where small groups of artisanal miners try their luck in the craters left behind by multinational mining companies. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
In this Nov. 13, 2015 photo, a picture hangs on the wall inside an artisanal diamond miner's home in Areinha, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The devastated area abandoned by giant mining corporations is now a no man's land where small groups of rural workers try their luck with manual techniques and little to no infrastructure. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
