AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

September 27, 2024

Sept. 20-26, 2024

The Associated Press, Associated Press

Fans attend the performance of Canadian singer Shawn Mendes at the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)ASSOCIATED PRESS

People run through police tear gas during clashes between supporters of both former President Evo Morales and current President Luis Arce in El Alto, Bolivia, Sept. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)ASSOCIATED PRESS

Students demonstrate ahead of the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students in Guerrero state, in Mexico City, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)ASSOCIATED PRESS

Children eat a free, cooked meal outside a soup kitchen on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)ASSOCIATED PRESS

A street vendor uses a generator-powered light bulb amid rolling blackouts in Manta, Ecuador, Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)ASSOCIATED PRESS

A youth cycles past a man taking a bucket bath at a school where people displaced by gang violence have been living for over a year in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)ASSOCIATED PRESS

A statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe sits inside a shrine to Jesus Malverde, a folk saint viewed as the protector of people involved in the drug trade, in Culiacan, Mexico, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)ASSOCIATED PRESS

A man lights charcoal to cook dinner in his flooded home after the passage of Hurricane Helene in Guanimar, Artemisa province, Cuba, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)ASSOCIATED PRESS

Boca Juniors fans wave a banner of Juan Roman Riquelme, soccer club president, during an Argentine league match against River Plate at La Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept. 21, 2024.(AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)ASSOCIATED PRESS

Julian Alfred, center, who won the 100-meter Olympic gold in Paris, is celebrated upon returning to Saint Lucia after winning the country's first Olympic medal, in Castries, Saint Lucia, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Kirk Elliott)ASSOCIATED PRESS

Volunteers paddle canoe as they collect trash in Guanabara Bay as part of World Cleanup Day activities in Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Hannah-Kathryn Valles)ASSOCIATED PRESS

A woman walks with her children through the street in Piriati, Panama, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)ASSOCIATED PRESS

Sept. 20-26, 2024

Rio de Janeiro hosted its annual rock music festival. Mexicans protested on the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students. Argentina’s poverty rate jumped to 53% and Hurricane Helene flooded parts of Cuba.

This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Latin America and the Caribbean.

The selection was curated by AP photo editor Leslie Mazoch, based in Mexico City.

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