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AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Oct 28, 2021, 8:59 AM | Updated: 9:04 pm

A healthcare worker places an an intravenous line in the arm of a baby at the La Paix Hospital, als...

A healthcare worker places an an intravenous line in the arm of a baby at the La Paix Hospital, also known as the University of Peace Hospital, illuminated with light emitted from a cellphone amid severe fuel shortages and a continued general strike, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

(AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)


              A man who is part of a migrant caravan, sleeps on a bed of rocks on the banks of the in Huixtla River, Chiapas state, Mexico, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021, on a day of rest before continuing their trek across southern Mexico to the U.S. border. Mexico’s strategy had been to contain migrants in the south, far from the U.S. border while allowing them to apply for asylum in Mexico. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
            
              Migrants who have been marching in a caravan heading north enjoy water sprayed from a hose, in Huehuetan, in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. Migrant-rights advocates and aid workers travelling with the caravan estimate there could be 1,000 children among the estimated 4,000 people trudging along the highways under a punishing sun. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
            
              Maria Nunez sits with bouquets of Mexican marigolds, known as cempasuchiles, as her relatives set up a stand to sell them, ahead of the Day of the Dead celebrations at the Valle de Chalco municipal cemetery on the outskirts of Mexico City, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)
            
              A girl carries a boom box playing music surrounded by people waiting to buy low cost cooking gas sold by the Petrobras Oil Tankers Union in the Vila Vintem favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. Soaring prices for gas, meat, electricity and more have left millions of poor Brazilians struggling to make ends meet, as inflation reaches double digits. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
            
              Children jump rope in the Ache Indigenous town of Puerto Barra during celebrations marking the town's 45th anniversary, in the Alto Parana department of Paraguay, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. The town's original inhabitants left their jungle community, Naranjal, in the 1970s to start a new settlement on 850 hectares (2,100 acres) of land donated by a group of U.S. Christians. While some land is dedicated to the mechanized farming of yerba mate and soy, the majority is forest reserve and used for conservation, hunting and gathering. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
            
              Soldiers come to the aid of a women affected by teargas during a protest against the rise in gas prices and the policies of Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso, on the second day of a general, nation-wide strike, in Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
            
              Brazilian and U.S. researchers conduct an artificial insemination procedure on a jaguar at the Mata Ciliar Association conservation center, in Jundiai, Brazil, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. According to the environmental organization, the fertility program intends to develop a reproduction system to be tested on captive jaguars and later bring it to wild felines whose habitats are increasingly under threat from fires and deforestation. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
            
              Students wait for instructions to enter their classroom on the first day back to in-person school during an easing of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, at a public school in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
            
              Julieres hugs the coffin that contains the remains of her 4-year-old son Joshue, during a funeral service in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Oct 27, 2021. Joshue died while waiting to receive a bone marrow transplant. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
            
              Neighbors gather outside their homes built with recycled metal sheets in the Bellecour-Cite Soleil shanty town of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Oct. 1, 2021. Bellecour-Cité Soleil, a neighborhood of tin shacks without water, electricity or any basic services, is the stronghold of Jimmy Cherizier, aka Barbecue, a former policeman who leads the G9 gang coalition. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
            
              Businesswoman Magalie Dresse steps away to her view cellphone messages during a garden cocktail party at her home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. During the party for friends and associates, they swapped stories about the impossibility of business life in a gangster nation. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
            
              A healthcare worker places an an intravenous line in the arm of a baby at the La Paix Hospital, also known as the University of Peace Hospital, illuminated with light emitted from a cellphone amid severe fuel shortages and a continued general strike, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021.  (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Oct. 22 – Oct. 28, 2021

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean. It was curated by AP photo editor Anita Baca in Mexico City.

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