AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Aug 18, 2022, 6:44 PM | Updated: Aug 19, 2022, 8:11 am

A child holds a candle during a baptism ceremony inside the chapel of the Kalunga quilombo during the culmination of the week-long pilgrimage and celebration for the patron saint "Nossa Senhora da Abadia" or Our Lady of Abadia, in the rural area of Cavalcante in Goias state, Brazil, late Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

(AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

A man swims in a pool in Panama City, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

A phrase that reads in Spanish "SOS Mr. AMLO. We are being attacked. Help!!!" covers a street in the October 2 squatter settlement in Tulum, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. The message was written by the squatters, directed at Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador after local authorities attempted to evict them from a stretch of public land that was sold by city officials to largely foreign developers. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Catholics carry a wooden statue of the The Assumption of the Virgin Mary during a procession honoring the patron Saint of Guatemala City, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

A dead snake lays on the scorched ground in the Parana Delta near Victoria, Entre Rios province, Argentina, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. The fires have been raging in the Parana Delta for several weeks. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

FILE - A Venezuelan flag is reflected in the sunglasses of a student federation member during a protest by public workers demanding the government pay their full benefits and respect collective bargaining agreements in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

View of religious images are protected with bubble wrap belonging to the Our Lady of the Angels Parish Sanctuary that was damaged 5 years ago by an earthquake in Mexico City, Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022. The Parish has begun restoration work, which lost half of its dome and preserves the image of a virgin that is considered miraculous because it has survived floods and earthquakes. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)

A coca farmer launches fireworks at the police during the third week of clashes near a coca leaf market in La Paz, Bolivia, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. Coca farmers are demanding that the government ban a parallel coca market that they say is run by unions close to the government. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attend his re-election campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. Bolsonaro formally began his campaign for re-election in this town where he was stabbed during his 2018 campaign. General elections are set for Oct. 2. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Sophia Fernandes, a member of the Kalunga quilombo, the descendants of runaway slaves, dons traditional afro braids, during the culmination of the week-long pilgrimage and celebration for the patron saint "Nossa Senhora da Abadia" or Our Lady of Abadia, in the rural area of Cavalcante in Goias state, Brazil, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Devotees celebrate Our Lady of Abadia at this time of the year with weddings, baptisms and by crowning distinguished community members, as they maintain cultural practices originating from Africa that mix with Catholic traditions. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Visitors check out weapons on display at an armory stand during an international hunting, fishing and weapons fair, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

Aug. 12 – 18, 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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