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AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Women protests against the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died while in police custody in Iran, in front of the Iranian embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. Mahsa Amini was arrested by Iran's morality police for allegedly violating its strictly-enforced dress code. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) A paid porter carries a person across the Tachira River from Venezuela to Colombia, near Cucuta, Colombia, early Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. Some people are still using illegal border crossings despite the Simon Bolivar International Bridge being open to pedestrians, some for reasons like not having identification, and many cross into Colombia to buy goods and then return. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) A person fishes in the Yaqui River where its water is held back by the Oviachic dam, on the outskirts of Ciudad Obregon, Mexico, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador apologized in August 2022 to the Yaqui Indigenous people for past abuses and promised a series of infrastructure programs to improve their lives, but has refused to stop the siphoning off of their water, though the director of the local water district says it is illegal. Yaqui water-defense leader Tomás Rojo was killed in June 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) People adjust the crown of Mery I after being named as the Elderly Spring Queen in La Paz, Bolivia, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. The Association of Older Adults "Experiencias de Vida" crowned "Mery I" as its Queen of Spring 2022. (AP Photo/Juan Karita) Rescuers from the Guatemalan Army descend into a sinkhole in Villa Nueva, Guatemala, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. Search efforts continue for a mother and daughter who disappeared when their vehicle was swallowed by the massive sinkhole. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo) People play in the breaking waves at the Malecon, in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. Cuba remained in the dark early Wednesday after Hurricane Ian knocked out its power grid and devastated some of the country's most important tobacco farms when it hit the island's western tip as a major storm. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) A woman prays in an area of the Abaete dune system, on a steep rise of sand evangelicals have come to call the "Holy Mountain", in Salvador, Brazil, late Friday night, Sept. 16, 2022. Evangelicals have been converging on the dunes for some 25 years but especially lately, with thousands now coming each week to sing, pray and enter trancelike states to commune with God.(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) A pile of plastic bags full of garbage removed from the basin of the Cerron Grande hydroelectric dam sits on the shore near Potonico, El Salvador, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. Recent rains threw large quantities of garbage into the basin. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez) A man carries two children in the rain in search of shelter after Hurricane Ian flooded their home in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. Ian made landfall at 4:30 a.m. EDT Tuesday in Cuba's Pinar del Rio province, where officials set up shelters, evacuated people, rushed in emergency personnel and took steps to protect crops in the nation's main tobacco-growing region. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) Cart pushers clench their fists threatening to start a fight after their carts accidentally colliding into each other at the Cease wholesale market in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) A model wears a creation by Panamanian designer Edda Gonzalez during the opening day of the Panama Fashion Week in Panama City, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean