Jun. 07, 2024 10:23 AM EST

Ap Week In Pictures: Latin America And Caribbean

By The Associated Press
Tractors and trucks prepare layers of garbage at a landfill in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. According to the federal government, states and cities have until August to reduce the environmental impacts of waste collection. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) Eraldo Peres, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tractors and trucks prepare layers of garbage at a landfill in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. According to the federal government, states and cities have until August to reduce the environmental impacts of waste collection. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Third graders attend class inside a building at the New Asuncion school in Presidente Hayes in Paraguay's Chaco region, Monday, June 3, 2024. Due to not enough classrooms, students have been attending classes outside for the past three years with instruction from a municipal worker. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
Inmates sit on the floor with their hands on their heads during a search by soldiers, at El Rodeo prison, in Portoviejo, Ecuador. Wednesday, June 5, 2024. Dozens of soldiers took control of the prison on Wednesday amid a spiral of murders, in the province of Manabí. (AP Photo/Cesar Munoz)
People play cricket on the street in the Charlestown neighborhood of Georgetown, Guyana, Sunday, June 2, 2024. Guyana is one of the venues for the T20 Cricket World Cup. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
A woman participates in a march marking the ninth anniversary of the "Ni Una Menos," or Not One Less, women's movement in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, June 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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May 31-June 6, 2024

Claudia Sheinbaum took the top spot in Mexico's biggest-ever elections, becoming the country's first female president.

Residents from the Panamanian island of Gardi Sugdub arrived at their new homes on the mainland on the country's Caribbean coast. About 300 families are moving to the mainland ahead of expected rising sea levels in the coming decades.

Argentines participated in a march to mark the ninth anniversary of the Ni Una Menos, or Not One Less, women's movement in Buenos Aires.

People played cricket on the streets of the Charlestown neighborhood of Georgetown, Guyana, as the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup kicked off in the U.S. and the West Indies.

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 photographer Moises Castillo, based in Guatemala City.

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