Latin America and Caribbean in Review

This monthly gallery features some of the top photojournalism made by Associated Press photographers documenting Latin America and the Caribbean during the month of July.

A musician dressed in a feathered costume pays tribute to Saint Francisco Solano for a fulfilled prayer during a procession in his honor in Emboscada, Paraguay, Monday, July 24, 2023. Legend has it that while lying on his death bed in a Peruvian convent birds perched on Solano’s window and would sing to him, inspiring his followers to dress in bird costumes and he became known as known as the Saint of the birds. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Paso Severino reservoir bridge is exposed after 30 years underwater due to a severe drought, in Florida, Uruguay, Tuesday, July 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

Australian Timothy Lyndsay Shaddock disembarks the tuna boat "Maria Delia" that rescued him and his dog Bella, at the port in Manzanillo, Mexico, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. After being adrift with his dog for three months, the pair were rescued by the Mexican boat from his incapacitated catamaran in the Pacific Ocean some 1,200 miles from land. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

An anti-government protester, dressed as Barbie holding a fake gun, takes part in a demonstration demanding that Peruvian President Dina Boluarte call for immediate presidential elections as well as justice for those who were killed during protests earlier this year after the ouster of her predecessor, in Lima, Peru, Saturday, July 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Migrants, mainly from Central America, who were traveling to the U.S. inside a tractor-trailer, are detained by Mexican immigration agents and National Guard members, in Veracruz, Mexico, Sunday, July 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Persons grieve near the body of a man, killed in unknown circumstances, on a street in Duran, Ecuador, Friday, July 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

A man looks through an opening of a giant Colombian national flag during the Independence Day military parade, in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, July 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

An Aymara man walks on the dry cracked bed of Lake Titicaca where they’re used to water, in Huarina, Bolivia, Thursday, July 27, 2023. The highest navigable lake in the world has receded to what Bolivian authorities say are critically low levels due to a persistent drought. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Police stand guard outside the Electoral Court building while demonstrators march to support the electoral process, as the chief justice of the Supreme Court issued an order blocking certification of the presidential election results, in Guatemala City, on a rainy Saturday, July 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

India's captain Rohit Sharma and teammates celebrate the dismissal of West Indies' Kirk McKenzie as rains breaks on day three of their second cricket Test match, at Queen's Park in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Saturday, July 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

Electoral authorities review electoral records projected on a screen, on the third day of a review of electoral records, in Guatemala City, Thursday, July 6, 2023. The Constitutional Court ordered the investigation of alleged irregularities claimed by political parties that lost in the June 25th general election. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Technicians and researchers sow native corn seeds in a freshly plowed field used as a large, open-air laboratory to study the benefits of native versus hybrid – crossbred — corn varieties, in Apizaco, Mexico, Thursday, May 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

A policeman checks a public transport driver's cargo that includes coffins, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, July 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

A visitor, his face painted to represent a zebra, eyes the camera during a parade marking the 100th anniversary of the Chapultepec Zoo, in Mexico City, Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

A costumed participant walks to the Pride Parade, in Quito, Ecuador, Saturday, July 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Members of the Caracas FC fan club, who call themselves The Red Demons, light flares during the derby soccer match against Deportivo Tachira at Estadio Olimpico in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, July 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Diana Lander rides a wave as she surfs off Anare beach in La Guaira, Venezuela, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Members of the Disappeared Detainees Relatives Group of Chile hold cardboard cutouts depicting their disappeared relatives in a march commemorating the so-called "Operation Colombo” in which over a hundred dissidents were executed by Augusto Pinochet's security forces, in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, July 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Pallbearers carry the coffin that contain the remains of Indigenous regional leader Fredy Campo Bomba, in Caldono, Colombia, Saturday, July 29, 2023. Campo Bomba was killed by unidentified gunmen on July 26. (AP Photo/Andres Quintero)

Huracan de Chabas women’s soccer team pose for photos on the field prior to their match against Alumni in Arequito, Santa Fe province, Argentina, Monday, June 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Residents and environmentalists watch a Cardon (Dermochelys coriacea) sea turtle hatchling head to the ocean after being released by conservationists at the beach in La Sabana, Venezuela, Sunday, July 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele is illuminated by a stage spotlight during the Central American and Caribbean Games opening ceremony, at the newly remodeled Jorge "El Magico" Gonzalez stadium in San Salvador, El Salvador, June 23, 2023. The 41-year-old leader stood before tens of thousands of roaring sports fans with a message that he is not a dictator. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

An anti-government protester dressed as Spiderman takes photos during a march through downtown Lima, Peru, Wednesday, July 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

The Moncada military barracks are illuminated before sunrise during a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the assault on the barracks, now a school, in Santiago, Cuba, Wednesday, July 26, 2023. Cuba marks the 1953 rebel attack led by Fidel and Raul Castro that is considered the start of Fidel's revolution that culminated with the ouster of dictator Fulgencio Batista. ( AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)

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Lead photo: A life size mannequin representing bricklayer Amarildo de Souza, a resident of the Rocinha favela who disappeared 10 years ago, lays under netting on Copacabana beach during a protest against his disappearance, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, July 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

This gallery was curated by photojournalist Moises Castillo, based in Guatemala City.