AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Jun 16, 2022, 9:06 AM | Updated: 9:12 pm

A man in a devil costume crawls on his knees toward a church as he pays a penance as part of celebrations of the Catholic holiday of Corpus Christi in La Guaira, Venezuela, Thursday, June 16, 2022. Carrying masks of animals and sea monsters, residents of all ages went out to dance in the ritual known as Dancing Devils that symbolizes the triumph of good over evil. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

(AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Skydivers practice in an indoor air tunnel in La Guaira, Venezuela, Thursday, June 16, 2022. According to site director Gian Carlo Trimarchi "This is the largest wind tunnel in Latin America and the most economical in the world." (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A shaman performs a good luck ritual in front of a photo of Peru's national soccer team, on San Cristobal hill in Lima, Peru, Friday, June 10, 2022. The shamans called on Mother Earth to support the Andean nation in its play-off game against Australia on Monday, to seal one of the final spots in this year's World Cup in Qatar. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

US singer and songwriter Laura Pergolizzi, known as LP, poses for a portrait in Mexico City, May 30, 2022. LP will take her tour to South America at the end of 2022. (AP Photo/Berenice Bautista)

A group of golden lion tamarins is seen in a tree during an observation tour at a private partner property of the golden lion tamarin ecological park, in the Atlantic Forest region of Silva Jardim, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Thursday, June 16, 2022. The park is part of the golden lion tamarin association's effort for the conservation of the endangered species. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

A motorcyclist carries three young woman as he performs a wheelie on his motorbike during an exhibition in the Chapellin neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, June 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Paramedics run from no-man's-land and tear gas as demonstrators retreat during protests against the economic policies of the government of Guillermo Lasso near the government palace in Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday, June 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

A man stops to look at the carcass of a Bryde's whale that washed ashore in Panama Bay, near the Casco Viejo neighborhood of Panama City, Thursday, June 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

Fishermen carry garbage collected from the mangroves of Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, June 13, 2022. Fishermen in the area are part of an environmental project supported by BVRio Institute and earn a salary collecting the garbage from the bay. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

June 9 to June 16, 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 Photo Editor Tomas Stargardter in Mexico City.

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