Protesters, supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, break into Brazil’s National Congress, in Brasilia, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
This photo gallery highlights some of the most striking images captured or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean. It was curated by AP photo editor Tomas Stargardter in Mexico City.
The First Lady of the United States, Jill Biden, extends her arms to embrace the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, his wife Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, and the President of the United States, Joe Biden, at the National Palace in the City of Mexico, Monday, January 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
A group of children watches “Saurian and the Witnesses of Outer Space”, the night parade by the French company Plasticiens Volants during the Santiago A Mil International Dance, Theater and Visual Arts Festival, in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, January 10, 2019. 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Indigenous women arrive Wednesday, January 11, 2023, for the inauguration ceremony of Sonia Guajajara, who heads the new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
A member of the Mexican National Guard guards a subway station in Mexico City, Thursday, January 12, 2023. The head of government of Mexico City says that more than 6,000 National Guard agents will be deployed in the city’s metro network after a series of accidents that authorities say could be due to sabotage. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Residents surround coffins Tuesday, January 10, 2023, during a vigil for the deaths of more than a dozen people during riots in Juliaca, Peru. At least 17 people were killed in southeastern Peru on Monday as protests calling for immediate elections resumed in neglected rural parts of the country that remain loyal to ousted President Pedro Castillo. (AP Photo/Jose Sotomayor)
The new Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara, reads her inaugural speech in a private area before the inauguration ceremony on Wednesday, January 11, 2023, at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, center left, and First Lady Cilia Flores wave to the crowd as they arrive to deliver his annual address to the nation before lawmakers at the National Assembly Thursday, January 12, 2023, in Caracas, Venezuela. . (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
A truck catches fire on a street in Culiacán, Sinaloa state, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. Mexican security forces captured Ovidio Guzmán, an alleged drug trafficker wanted by the United States and one of the former cartel boss’s sons. of Sinaloa, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, in an operation carried out before dawn on Thursday that sparked shootings and blockades in the capital of the western state. (AP Photo/Martin Urista)
A reveler dances Sunday, January 8, 2023, during the “Lambabloco” block street carnival parade, which kicks off the unofficial Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
