Mar. 15, 2024 09:49 AM EST

Ap Week In Pictures: Latin America And Caribbean

Veronica Kutdo stands with salvaged hens amid the charred debris of her home after an overnight fire in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) Fernando Vergara, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Veronica Kutdo stands with salvaged hens amid the charred debris of her home after an overnight fire in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
A woman holds a bengala in front of La Moneda presidential palace during an International Women's Day march, in Santiago, Chile, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
A resident holds a container of chicken stew that he received from the Excluded Workers Movement soup kitchen, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 13, 2024. Organizers said the kitchen is open three days a week and serves about 4,000 people a day, but because of the increasing number of people coming for meals, they often don't have enough to go around. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Women perform covering their faces with white scarves to symbolize that women are invisible in the justice system during an International Women's Day event in Lima, Peru, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
A person holds a statuette of the Virgin of Charity of Cobre during Mass at the Virgin's shrine in El Cobre, Cuba, Feb. 11, 2024. The Vatican-recognized Virgin, venerated by Catholics and followers of Afro-Cuban Santeria traditions, is at the heart of Cuban identity, uniting compatriots from the Communist-run Caribbean island to those who were exiled or emigrated to the U.S. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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March 8-14, 2024

Women marched to commemorate International Women’s Day in cities across Latin America, a region marred by high levels of violence against women. Recent intense rains in Bolivia helped Lake Titicaca recover. A U.N. official warned that increase in gang violence in Haiti has made a very bad situation even worse.

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The selection was curated by photojournalist Fernando Vergara in Bogota, Colombia.

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