Haitian migrants wade through a river to cross the Darien jungle between Colombia and Panama, hoping to reach the United States, on May 9, 2023. U.S. restrictions on asylum in connection with the coronavirus pandemic , known as Title 42, expired on May 11. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
This photo gallery highlights some of the best news images taken by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean published between May 5-11, 2023.
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The images were curated by The Associated Press photo editor Leslie Mazoch in Mexico City.
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A migrant baby is carried in a suitcase across the Rio Grande, from Matamoros, Mexico, to the United States, on May 10, 2023. Migrants were rushing across the border before U.S.-imposed asylum restrictions expired. United on the pandemic, a shift that threatens to place a historic burden on the country’s battered immigration system. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Migrants line up between a barbed wire barrier and the US-Mexico border wall, as seen from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on May 9, 2023. Migrants were rushing across the border before restrictions on asylum expired. imposed by the United States in connection with the pandemic, a change that threatens to put a historic burden on the country’s battered immigration system. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
A migrant gestures toward Texas National Guard agents watching from behind barbed wire, on the banks of the Rio Grande, as seen from Matamoros, Mexico, on May 11, 2023. US President Joe Biden’s administration has introduced stricter measures to replace Title 42, which since March 2020 has allowed border authorities to quickly expel migrants across the border to prevent the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Mexican boxer Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez greets fans before his super middleweight championship title fight against Britain’s John Ryder, at Akron Stadium, in Guadalajara, Mexico, on May 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Moisés Castle)
A photograph of Pope Francis hangs next to a sign informing that card payments increase 7% for debit, and 12% for credit, at a fruit and vegetable stall in a market in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 11, 2023. According to a recent report on food security from the World Bank, the price of food in Argentina suffers year-on-year inflation of 107%. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Vania Hernández Portillo, daughter of a disappeared woman, participates with mothers of the disappeared in a march to demand government help to find their loved ones, coinciding with the celebration of Mother’s Day, in Mexico City, on May 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
A group of people wait at the Stabroek market to cross to the other side of the Demerara River, near a merchant ship, in Georgetown, Guyana, on April 12, 2023. Guyana is on track to become the world’s fourth largest oil producer in high seas, ahead of Qatar, the United States, Mexico and Norway. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
River Plate fans cheer before the start of a league match against Boca Juniors, at the Monumental stadium, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)
Election workers prepare the former Mapocho train station, now a cultural center, to be turned into a polling station for the Constitutional Council elections, in Santiago, Chile, on May 5, 2023. The far-right was the main winner of the the elections to elect the commission that will write a new constitution that will replace the one imposed by General Augusto Pinochet. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Alessandra Bueno Barros, who lives on the street, watches a performance by Flavio Falcone, known as the Clown Doctor, in the area of downtown Sao Paulo called Crackland, in Brazil, on May 11, 2023. Falcone directs a program called ” Teto, Trampo e Tratamento” (“Shelter, work and treatment”) that carries out social activities with drug addicts. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
