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AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Jun 9, 2022, 9:04 AM | Updated: 9:08 pm
A horse pulls a buggy with passengers through a street flooded by heavy rains, in Havana, Cuba, Fri...

A horse pulls a buggy with passengers through a street flooded by heavy rains, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, June 3, 2022. Heavy rains have drenched Cuba with almost non-stop rain for the last 24 hours as tropical storm watches were posted Thursday for Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas as the system that battered Mexico moves to the east. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Women light candles during a march marking the 7th anniversary of the Ni Una Menos, or Not One Less, women's movement, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, June 3, 2022. A grassroots movement that began in Argentina mobilized to fight violence against women, Ni Una Menos spread rapidly worldwide. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) Boys say a prayer before digging into their free lunch donated by the New Birth's Christian church, in the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. Once a week, the church hands out over 100 free lunches to low-income children, pregnant women and the elderly. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) People create a line along Copacabana beach for a symbolic group hug with the sea on World Oceans Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. The Route Brasil environmental organization called for people to gather for the event coined "That Hug" to draw the attention to ocean pollution. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo) A boy prepares to jump into a ditch that drains water from an abandoned highway tunnel in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) City workers remove garbage floating on the Negro River, which has a rising water level due to rain, in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, Monday, June 6, 2022. About 35 tons of garbage are removed daily from the water in Manaus, according to the city. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros) Dancers in Cuba's National Ballet rehearse the piece "Tributo a Ben Stevenson" for a performance that will commemorate 120 years of diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and Cuba, and the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Elizabeth II, at the Alicia Alonso Theater in Havana, Cuba, Monday, June 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) A woman performs during a demonstration marking the 7th anniversary of the Ni Una Menos, or Not One Less, women's movement, in downtown Montevideo, Uruguay, Friday, June 3, 2022. A grassroots movement that began in Argentina that mobilized to fight violence against women, Ni Una Menos, spread rapidly worldwide with branches in New York, Berlin, Italy, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador and more. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico) Rozineida Machado, a cook with the Vale Encantado cooperative shows fruit and vegetables grown in the Vale Encantado sustainable community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, June 6, 2022. Vale Encantado, the place where dozens of families live near the Tijuca National Forest has created its own sewer system to keep the local streams clean. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado) Migrants, many from Central American and Venezuela, walk along the Huehuetan highway in Chiapas state, Mexico, early Tuesday, June 7, 2022. The group left Tapachula on Monday, tired of waiting to normalize their status in a region with little work and still far from their ultimate goal of reaching the United States. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) People look out from a viewpoint during sunset in the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) A horse pulls a buggy with passengers through a street flooded by heavy rains, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, June 3, 2022. Heavy rains have drenched Cuba with almost non-stop rain for the last 24 hours as tropical storm watches were posted Thursday for Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas as the system that battered Mexico moves to the east. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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June 2 to June 9, 2022

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 Photojournalist Victor Caivano in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean