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AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
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Date:2025-04-18 20:54:31
Sept. 1 – Sept. 7, 2023
In Buenos Aires, a couple dances Tango in the World Championship final round. In Chile, locals commemorate the 50th anniversary that brought Gen. Augusto Pinochet to power. In South America, fans prepped for the FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifying round and in Brazil a cyclone washed away houses, trapped motorists in vehicles and swamped streets.
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 Moises Castillo in Guatemala.
Miguel Garcia pushes a wheelbarrow filled with nopales or prickly pear cacti pads, into his family’s greenhouse, in San Francisco Tepeyacac, east of Mexico City, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. Garcia’s family specializes in the production of cochineal dye that comes from the crushed bodies of tiny female insects that contain carminic acid and feed on the pads of nopal cactus plants. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
A girl plays under a light projecting a rooster on the floor during nighttime activities in the Chacao neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Evgeniia Samoilova and Luis Squicciarini compete in the Tango World Championship final round of the salon category, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A sculpture depicting half of a pair of black-framed glasses Chilean President Salvador Allende was wearing when he died, is displayed in the patio of the National Museum of History in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. Gen. Augusto Pinochet led a military coup on Sept. 11, 1973, that included the bombing of the presidential palace in the capital of Santiago, where Allende had taken refuge. Allende died by suicide during the assault. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
A woman holds up a soccer jersey that reads in Spanish “J Hermoso 10, It’s Over,” in support of Spanish soccer player Jennifer Hermoso before a women’s friendly soccer match between Mexico’s Club America and Spain’s Real Madrid outside the Azteca stadium in Mexico City, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Ruiz Ruiz)
A home leans in on itself, destroyed by a deadly cyclone in Roca Sales, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. Flooding from a cyclone in southern Brazil has washed away houses, trapped motorists in vehicles and swamped streets in several cities. (AP Photo/Wesley Santos)
A fan of Colombia cheers prior to a qualifying soccer match against Venezuela for the FIFA World Cup 2026 at Metropolitano stadium in Barranquilla, Colombia, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Jaime Zorondo, left, accompanied by relatives, descends the stairs that leads to a tunnel at the National Stadium once used as a prison and place of torture, where he was detained on Sept. 1973, in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023. Zorondo is taking part in a meeting of former detainees as part of the 50th commemoration of the military coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet that overthrew Chile’s late President Salvador Allende. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Claudia Sheinbaum speaks after being elected to be the MORENA party candidate for the upcoming national presidential elections, during an event in Mexico City, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Storm clouds gather overhead as cargo ships that wait to transit through the Panama Canal are anchored on Atlantic side of the Panama Canal, seen from Colon, Panama, Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. Due to a lack of rainfall, authorities in early August limited the number of ships passing through the canal. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
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