AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Posted August 27, 2021 7:00 am
Aug. 20 '“ Aug. 26, 2021
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 City.
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Police officers introduce a litter of golden retriever puppies, some of which are black golden retrievers, to be trained as police dogs during a ceremony at the National Police Academy in La Paz, Bolivia, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021, the date of the feast day for Saint Roch, considered the patron saint of dogs, among other things. Other police dogs were retired from service during the ceremony. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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Residents fight a fire with buckets of water in Santa Ana, poor neighborhood of Asuncion, Paraguay, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. The fire was started by people burning trash, but it spread and destroyed at least a dozen homes. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
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Fans of the Union Espanola soccer club wears masks and social distance during a match at Santa Laura stadium in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. Following more than a year of restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, fans were allowed back into stadiums for the first time. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
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A replica of the Aztec Templo Mayor stands in the middle of the Zocalo to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the fall of the Aztec empire capital of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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A woman sleeps outside her home in Saint-Louis-du-Sud, Haiti, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021, two days after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the southwestern part of the country. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
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Youths, some wearing masks, wait in line to be vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 during a vaccination campaign for people between ages18-29 in Mexico City, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. Xochimilco encouraged youths to arrive in costumes and compete for prizes if they were coming for their first shot. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
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Pink liquid waste from the Durli Leathers S.A. tannery sits in a deposit in an open field in Paraguari, Paraguay, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021, on the day the Environment Ministry stopped the tannery's operations. Nearby landowners fear that once it rains the liquid will contaminate streams that drain into Lake Ypoa and suspect the deaths of eight cattle with bloody diarrhea were caused by drinking water near this deposit. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
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Zenobia Ansualve eats lunch in her home in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday Aug. 18, 2021. The 88-year-old who lives alone said she hasn't left her home since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and survives on $20 a month from a room she rents out. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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A man carries a bag of onions through a crowded street that is part of La Terminal Market after the government implemented new restrictions to contain the spread of COVID-19 Delta variant, including a nighttime curfew, in Guatemala City, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)
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A girl plays inside a classroom where her family is staying at a school turned into a shelter for those displaced by the 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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