AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

March 7-13, 2025

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A protester in a Joker costume takes part in a demonstration by soccer fans and retirees demanding higher pensions and opposing austerity measures implemented by Javier Milei's government in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)ASSOCIATED PRESS

Colombian migrants look out the window of a Panamanian immigration bus transporting them from a migrant reception center in Lajas Blancas, where they arrived after crossing the Darien Gap en route to the U.S. southern border, to a police station in Panama City, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)ASSOCIATED PRESS

Guatemalan soldiers patrol the shared border with Mexico as part of the Ring of Fire operation, aiming to strengthen border control, at the mouth of Suchiate River in Ocos, Guatemala, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)ASSOCIATED PRESS

A hospital worker dances with a clown from the "Roda de Palhacos" cultural project during a carnival party at the Servidores do Estado Federal Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)ASSOCIATED PRESS

Performers from a gender rights group stage an act representing victims of gender-based violence to mark International Women's Day in front of a cultural center in Bogotá, Colombia, Saturday, March 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)ASSOCIATED PRESS

Players of Ecuador's Barcelona celebrate at the end of a Copa Libertadores soccer match against Brazil's Corinthians at Neo QuÌmica Arena in Sao Paulo, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Ettore Chiereguini)ASSOCIATED PRESS

Detainees are shown to the press after police detained them in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Friday, March 7, 2025, for alleged involvement with the previous day's massacre in the Socio Vivienda 2 neighborhood. (AP Photo/Cesar Munoz)ASSOCIATED PRESS

Residents traverse flooded streets after the Pallina River overflowed in Viacha, Bolivia, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)ASSOCIATED PRESS

A woman waves a flare during a march marking International Women's Day, in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, March 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)ASSOCIATED PRESS

Soccer fans join retirees protesting for higher pensions and against austerity measures implemented by Javier Milei's government in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)ASSOCIATED PRESS

A garbage worker cleans the sidewalk by a mural of late soccer star Diego Maradona in Buenos Aires, Argentina, early Monday, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)ASSOCIATED PRESS

March 7-13, 2025

Soccer fans joined retirees in demanding higher pensions and opposing austerity measures implemented by President Javier Milei’s government in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Colombian migrants took a bus transporting them from a migrant reception center in Lajas Blancas, where they arrived after crossing the Darien Gap en route to the U.S. southern border, to a police station. Clowns visited a hospital in Rio de Janeiro. Residents traverse flooded streets after the Pallina River overflowed in Viacha, Bolivia.

This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Latin America and the Caribbean.

The selection was curated by AP photo editor Martín Mejía, based in Lima, Peru.

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