AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

A woman holds a bengala in front of La Moneda presidential palace during an International Women's Day march, in Santiago, Chile, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) — A woman holds a bengala in front of La Moneda presidential palace during an International Women’s Day march, in Santiago, Chile, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

A woman holds a bengala in front of La Moneda presidential palace during an International Women's Day march, in Santiago, Chile, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) — A woman holds a bengala in front of La Moneda presidential palace during an International Women’s Day march, in Santiago, Chile, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

March 8-14, 2024

Women marched to commemorate International Women’s Day in cities across Latin America, a region marred by high levels of violence against women. Recent intense rains in Bolivia helped Lake Titicaca recover. A U.N. official warned that increase in gang violence in Haiti has made a very bad situation even worse.

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Veronica Kutdo stands with salvaged hens amid the charred debris of her home after an overnight fire in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

A child watches from an opening in a security gate as residents flee their homes due to gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

A public health worker fumigates a public school playground as part of a campaign against dengue-promoting mosquitoes, in the Sao Sebastiao neighborhood of Brasilia, Brazil, March 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

The body of a Veracruz state police officer lies in the middle of the road after he was fatally shot while patrolling in the Lomas de Rio Medio neighborhood of Veracruz, Mexico, March 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

A person holds a statuette of the Virgin of Charity of Cobre during Mass at the Virgin's shrine in El Cobre, Cuba, Feb. 11, 2024. The Vatican-recognized Virgin, venerated by Catholics and followers of Afro-Cuban Santeria traditions, is at the heart of Cuban identity, uniting compatriots from the Communist-run Caribbean island to those who were exiled or emigrated to the U.S. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) — A person holds a statuette of the Virgin of Charity of Cobre during Mass at the Virgin’s shrine in El Cobre, Cuba, Feb. 11, 2024. The Vatican-recognized Virgin, venerated by Catholics and followers of Afro-Cuban Santeria traditions, is at the heart of Cuban identity, uniting compatriots from the Communist-run Caribbean island to those who were exiled or emigrated to the U.S. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Boats float along the flooded shores of Lake Titicaca in Isla de Cojata, Bolivia, March 9, 2024. The intense rains of recent weeks in Bolivia helped Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable body of fresh water in the world, recover to levels prior to the drought that put it at minimum depth records last year. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

A resident holds a container of chicken stew that he received from the Excluded Workers Movement soup kitchen, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 13, 2024. Organizers said the kitchen is open three days a week and serves about 4,000 people a day, but because of the increasing number of people coming for meals, they often don't have enough to go around. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) — A resident holds a container of chicken stew that he received from the Excluded Workers Movement soup kitchen, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 13, 2024. Organizers said the kitchen is open three days a week and serves about 4,000 people a day, but because of the increasing number of people coming for meals, they often don’t have enough to go around. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Women perform covering their faces with white scarves to symbolize that women are invisible in the justice system during an International Women's Day event in Lima, Peru, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia) — Women perform covering their faces with white scarves to symbolize that women are invisible in the justice system during an International Women’s Day event in Lima, Peru, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

The body of a man lies in a pool of blood alongside his motorcycle, in the Delmas area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 8, 2024. Witnesses say he was shot by two unidentified men on motorcycles. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Revelers push a giant paper-mache "torito" or bull stuffed with fireworks during a nighttime lighting of bull-shaped figures as part of the annual festival honoring Saint John of God, in Tultepec, Mexico, March 8, 2024. The celebration, now its 35th year, pays homage to the patron saint of the poor and sick, St. John of God, who the fireworks' producers view as a protective figure. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) — Revelers push a giant paper-mache “torito” or bull stuffed with fireworks during a nighttime lighting of bull-shaped figures as part of the annual festival honoring Saint John of God, in Tultepec, Mexico, March 8, 2024. The celebration, now its 35th year, pays homage to the patron saint of the poor and sick, St. John of God, who the fireworks’ producers view as a protective figure. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

The selection was curated by photojournalist Fernando Vergara in Bogota, Colombia.

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