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AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Jun 23, 2022, 9:01 AM | Updated: 9:14 pm

Indigenous protesters arrive to Quito to demonstrate in the capital against the economic policies o...

Indigenous protesters arrive to Quito to demonstrate in the capital against the economic policies of the government of President Guillermo Lasso, in Quito, Ecuador, Sunday, June 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

(AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)


              Confetti explode over a screen showing photos of presidential candidate Gustavo Petro, left, and his running mate Francia Marquez after they won a runoff election at their election night headquarters in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, June 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
            
              A Tupinamba Indigenous man performs in a ritual dance at the entrance of the Senate before Union of Indigenous Peoples of Vale do Javari leaders testify before a Federal Senate committee investigating the deaths of the British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
            
              Biologists Tatiana Fernandez, right, and Gabriela Santos collect seahorses from the water off Urca beach as part of the Rio de Janeiro seahorse project run by the Santa Ursula University, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, June 20, 2022. According to project leaders, there has been an increase in the seahorse population in recent years in Guanabara Bay since the 2014 nation-wide ban of their capture and sale to aquarium hobbyists, despite them being sensitive to polluted water. The seahorses are returned to sea after a few weeks. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
            
              Maria, who works as a seamstress, sells crochet rags she made as she sits outside her home, alongside others built on squatted land in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, June 20, 2022. Maria, who lives alone, said she is afraid of being evicted because she doesn't have enough money to rent another place. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
            
              A reveller holds a rainbow flag during the annual Gay Pride Parade in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, June 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
            
              Indigenous dancers perform The Dance of the Deer during the Corpus Christi celebration in the Kaqchikel Indigenous town of Patzun, Guatemala, Sunday, June 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
            
              Construction workers ride on a beam hanging from a crane at the construction site of a residential high rise building in Mexico City, Friday, June 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
            
              Residents walk through cold and heavy fog in the Ticlio Chico neighborhood on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, on the first official day of winter, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Temperatures in the capital are the lowest in 25 years, according to the National Service of Meteorology and Hydrology of Peru. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
            
              Indigenous protesters wave an Ecuadorian flag as they walk to Quito to protest in the capital against the economic policies of President Guillermo Lasso's government in Quito, Ecuador, Sunday, June 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
            
              Indigenous protesters arrive to Quito to demonstrate in the capital against the economic policies of the government of President Guillermo Lasso, in Quito, Ecuador, Sunday, June 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

JUNE 17-23, 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 Esteban Felix in Santiago, Chile.

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