AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Worshippers dressed in white gather before the Pyramid of the Sun as part of the Spring Equinox celebrations, in Teotihuacan, Mexico, March 21, 2024. Each year the Pyramid of the Sun and the adjacent Pyramid of the Moon draw thousands of pilgrims to the pre-Hispanic ceremonial and trading centre, northeast of Mexico City. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
A person’s eye is framed by the scope of a telescope at the 27th edition of the National Astronomy Festival in Villa de Leyva, Colombia, March 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Lolling with bright blue mats, sleeping masks and travel pillows, people lie sprawled out at the base of the iconic Monument to the Revolution to take a nap, in Mexico City, March 15, 2024. Dubbed the “mass siesta,” the event was in commemoration of World Sleep Day. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Mexican singer-songwriter Junior H takes a swig from a liquor bottle while performing at the Vive Latino music festival in Mexico City, March 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
Music fans record with their smart phones Mexican singer-songwriter Junior H performing at the Vive Latino music festival in Mexico City, March 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
Members of the Indigenous Guard drive past a vehicle they burned after an attack by Estado Mayor Central or EMC rebels, in Toribio, Colombia, March 19, 2024. Indigenous leader Carmelina Yule Pavi was killed by the EMC rebels days earlier after members of her Nasa community tried to stop the rebels from kidnapping a boy. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Emerald miner Janeth Paez, 45, stands inside the tunnel of an informal mine near the town of Coscuez, Colombia, Feb. 28, 2024. Deep inside mountain tunnels where the heat is so intense it causes headaches, women with power tools are chipping away at boulders in search of the green gems. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Motorcyclists navigate around a charred body lying in the road as pedestrians walk past, in the Petion-Ville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 20, 2024. Dozens of people have been killed and some 17,000 have been left homeless as gangs continue to raid neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
A camera partially submerged in the waters of the Chingaza lagoon captures aquatic plants growing in the paramo ecosystem of the Chingaza National Natural Park, Colombia, March 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Nina Gomes recovers a discarded plastic bag from ocean waters, near Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 19, 2024. The seven-year-old Brazilian environmental activist has spent years collecting garbage in the waters of Copacabana beach and teaching conservation methods to other children. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
A pedestrian holding an umbrella crosses the street during a rain shower in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Worshippers dressed in white gather before the Pyramid of the Sun as part of the Spring Equinox celebrations, in Teotihuacan, Mexico, March 21, 2024. Each year the Pyramid of the Sun and the adjacent Pyramid of the Moon draw thousands of pilgrims to the pre-Hispanic ceremonial and trading centre, northeast of Mexico City. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Worshippers dressed in white gather before the Pyramid of the Sun as part of the Spring Equinox celebrations, in Teotihuacan, Mexico, March 21, 2024. Each year the Pyramid of the Sun and the adjacent Pyramid of the Moon draw thousands of pilgrims to the pre-Hispanic ceremonial and trading centre, northeast of Mexico City. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
A person’s eye is framed by the scope of a telescope at the 27th edition of the National Astronomy Festival in Villa de Leyva, Colombia, March 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
A person’s eye is framed by the scope of a telescope at the 27th edition of the National Astronomy Festival in Villa de Leyva, Colombia, March 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Lolling with bright blue mats, sleeping masks and travel pillows, people lie sprawled out at the base of the iconic Monument to the Revolution to take a nap, in Mexico City, March 15, 2024. Dubbed the “mass siesta,” the event was in commemoration of World Sleep Day. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Lolling with bright blue mats, sleeping masks and travel pillows, people lie sprawled out at the base of the iconic Monument to the Revolution to take a nap, in Mexico City, March 15, 2024. Dubbed the “mass siesta,” the event was in commemoration of World Sleep Day. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Mexican singer-songwriter Junior H takes a swig from a liquor bottle while performing at the Vive Latino music festival in Mexico City, March 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
Mexican singer-songwriter Junior H takes a swig from a liquor bottle while performing at the Vive Latino music festival in Mexico City, March 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
Music fans record with their smart phones Mexican singer-songwriter Junior H performing at the Vive Latino music festival in Mexico City, March 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
Music fans record with their smart phones Mexican singer-songwriter Junior H performing at the Vive Latino music festival in Mexico City, March 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
Members of the Indigenous Guard drive past a vehicle they burned after an attack by Estado Mayor Central or EMC rebels, in Toribio, Colombia, March 19, 2024. Indigenous leader Carmelina Yule Pavi was killed by the EMC rebels days earlier after members of her Nasa community tried to stop the rebels from kidnapping a boy. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Members of the Indigenous Guard drive past a vehicle they burned after an attack by Estado Mayor Central or EMC rebels, in Toribio, Colombia, March 19, 2024. Indigenous leader Carmelina Yule Pavi was killed by the EMC rebels days earlier after members of her Nasa community tried to stop the rebels from kidnapping a boy. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Emerald miner Janeth Paez, 45, stands inside the tunnel of an informal mine near the town of Coscuez, Colombia, Feb. 28, 2024. Deep inside mountain tunnels where the heat is so intense it causes headaches, women with power tools are chipping away at boulders in search of the green gems. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Emerald miner Janeth Paez, 45, stands inside the tunnel of an informal mine near the town of Coscuez, Colombia, Feb. 28, 2024. Deep inside mountain tunnels where the heat is so intense it causes headaches, women with power tools are chipping away at boulders in search of the green gems. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Motorcyclists navigate around a charred body lying in the road as pedestrians walk past, in the Petion-Ville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 20, 2024. Dozens of people have been killed and some 17,000 have been left homeless as gangs continue to raid neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
Motorcyclists navigate around a charred body lying in the road as pedestrians walk past, in the Petion-Ville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 20, 2024. Dozens of people have been killed and some 17,000 have been left homeless as gangs continue to raid neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
A camera partially submerged in the waters of the Chingaza lagoon captures aquatic plants growing in the paramo ecosystem of the Chingaza National Natural Park, Colombia, March 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
A camera partially submerged in the waters of the Chingaza lagoon captures aquatic plants growing in the paramo ecosystem of the Chingaza National Natural Park, Colombia, March 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Nina Gomes recovers a discarded plastic bag from ocean waters, near Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 19, 2024. The seven-year-old Brazilian environmental activist has spent years collecting garbage in the waters of Copacabana beach and teaching conservation methods to other children. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Nina Gomes recovers a discarded plastic bag from ocean waters, near Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 19, 2024. The seven-year-old Brazilian environmental activist has spent years collecting garbage in the waters of Copacabana beach and teaching conservation methods to other children. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
A pedestrian holding an umbrella crosses the street during a rain shower in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A pedestrian holding an umbrella crosses the street during a rain shower in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
March 15-21, 2024
Thousands of spring equinox worshippers gathered around Mexico’s giant Pyramid of the Sun. Working in intense heat deep inside Colombian mountains, women chip at boulders in search of emeralds. A 7-year-old Brazilian environmental activist is spending some of her summer weekends collecting garbage in the waters off Copacabana beach and teaching conservation methods to other children.
This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The selection was curated by photo editor Anita Baca in Mexico City.
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