AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Rodrigo Franca prepares for his role as “Papai Negro” or Black Santa, for a Christmas event at a school in the City of God favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Dec. 8-14, 2023
Brazil’s City of God residents received a visit from “Papai Negro,” or Black Santa, kicking off the holiday season. Peruvian artists launched a campaign that aims to question the capital’s elites about their indifference to civilian deaths in anti-government protests a year ago. Argentina’s newly installed president announced cuts to energy and transportation subsidies and a sharp devaluation of the peso by 50% to tackle the country’s economic crisis.
This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Posters of well-known Peruvians depicting murder victims with a masthead that reads in Spanish; “What color are your dead? CASES”, are displayed on a wall in the Barranco district of Lima, Peru, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. The artistic campaign aims to question the capital’s elites about their indifference to the civilian deaths left by the anti-government protests one year ago. Almost all of the victims of the protests were Indigenous. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)
Pilgrims gather outside the Basilica of Guadalupe on her feast day in Mexico City, early Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023. Devotees of Our Lady of Guadalupe gather for one of the world’s largest religious pilgrimages on the anniversary of one of several apparitions of the Virgin Mary witnessed by an Indigenous Mexican man named Juan Diego in 1531. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
A commuter looks out at a feminist group rallying against the proposed draft of a new Constitution, in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. Chileans have until Sunday, Dec. 17th to study the articles and decide whether it will replace the current constitution, imposed by the military dictatorship 41 years ago, or if they prefer another path to change. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Argentina’s newly sworn-in President Javier Milei, left, and his sister Karina arrive to the government house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023. Milei’s administration announced two days later economic shock measures aimed at tackling the country’s severe crisis, including a sharp devaluation of the peso by 50%, cuts to subsidies and the closure of some ministries. (AP Photo/Julian Bongiovanni)
Firefighters spray water over supporters of Argentina’s newly sworn-in President Javier Milei gathered outside the government house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023. Milei presented figures to lay bare the scope of the nation’s economic “emergency,” and sought to prepare the public for a shock adjustment with drastic public spending cuts in his inaugural address. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)
“Cartoneros” soak their cardboard waste with water before taking it to be weighed at a recycling center, while cooling off in a fountain in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. South America’s second largest economy is suffering 143% annual inflation and four in 10 Argentines are impoverished. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
The selection was curated by photo editor Anita Baca in Mexico City.
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