A sedated lion, who lives in the only zoo in Puerto Rico, is transferred in a cage, in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, on April 28, 2023. Puerto Rico is closing the only zoo in the United States after activists they drew attention to years of alleged negligence, lack of resources and animal deaths. Most will be moved to The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo)
This photo gallery highlights some of the best news images taken by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean published between April 28 and May 4, 2023.
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The images were curated by Associated Press photographer Jorge Sáenz in Asunción, Paraguay.
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An indigenous woman attends the closing ceremony of the annual Terra Livre camp in Brasilia, Brazil, on April 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
A vendor salvages merchandise from the burned-out ruins of the Shada market, in the Petion-ville area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on May 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
Pablo Fernández, an indigenous Mb’a from Caaguazu, under a plastic sheet that is part of his camp outside the Paraguayan Indigenous Institute (INDI), where a group of indigenous people are demanding food aid, in Asunción, Paraguay, on April 28, 2023. The first round of Paraguay’s general elections is held on April 30. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
Floating containers, being towed by ships, lie empty next to a government sugarcane plantation inspected by Daniel Bacchus, in Albion, Guyana, on April 15, 2023. Despite the oil boom, poverty is increasing for some a as the cost of living rises. Products such as sugar, oranges, cooking oil or peppers, among others, have more than doubled prices while wages have been maintained. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Migrants blocking the road on the Chile-Peru border are dispersed by Chilean police near Arica, Chile, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. A migration crisis on the Chile-Peru border escalated in the presence of migrants, mostly Venezuelans, who are stranded on the border between the two countries on their way back home. (AP Photo/Agustin Mercado)
Dogs and their owners participate in the 4 km race “A race with a cause” organized by a shelter to raise funds for rescued dogs, in Caracas, Venezuela, on April 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Jessica do Vale controls the ball during a street soccer training program of the NGO Street Child United Brazil, in the Complexo da Penha favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 29, 2023. Girls defy the stereotype of a sport dominated by men with the support of coaches from their own community. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Wilfredo Ajllahuanca, inside the structure built by three educators on hunger strike who barricaded themselves inside the teachers’ union headquarters, in La Paz, Bolivia, on May 2, 2023. The three leaders began the hunger strike on May 1 May after two months of protests by teachers demanding an increase in the budget for public education and a change in the new educational curriculum. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Ayrton Lucas (right) of Brazil’s Flamengo is fouled by Gabriel Hauche of Racing Club de Argentina during a Copa Libertadores Group A match at the Presidente Perón stadium in Avellaneda, Argentina on May 4, 2023 (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)
