Mar. 01, 2024 09:59 AM EST

Ap Week In Pictures: Latin America And Caribbean

By The Associated Press
Confetti showers Bolivarian Militia members and government supporters at a march commemorating a 2004 speech by late President Hugo Chavez that is considered by his supporters a key anti-imperialist moment in the history of his Bolivarian Revolution in Caracas, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) Ariana Cubillos, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Confetti showers Bolivarian Militia members and government supporters at a march commemorating a 2004 speech by late President Hugo Chavez that is considered by his supporters a key anti-imperialist moment in the history of his Bolivarian Revolution in Caracas, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
People smoke cigars on the opening day of the annual Habano Festival in Havana, Cuba, Feb. 26, 2024. Cigar enthusiasts from around the world flock to Cuba for the festival where they can visit tobacco farms and taste new cigar brands. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
An Indigenous woman carries a cross with the name of a missing person during a memorial for the victims of the civil war in Guatemala City, Feb. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
A Maka Indigenous woman puts on make-up before protesting for the recovery of ancestral lands in Asuncion, Paraguay, Feb. 28, 2024. Her protest group is denouncing that the government has built a bridge on their land in El Chaco's Bartolome de las Casas. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
Patricia Strier poses for a portrait with family photos including her sister Mirta at her home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jan. 29, 2024. Strier's sister died in the worst bombing attack on civilians in Argentina's history in 1994 when a bomb-laden van exploded inside the AMIA Jewish community center, killing 85 people. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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Feb. 23–29, 2024

Indigenous people in Guatemala remembered the victims of their country’s civil war, while Paraguay's Indigenous communities protested for the recovery of ancestral lands. Bolivians moved to shelters as their homes filled with flood water from an overflowing river. Cuba held its annual Habano Festival where cigar enthusiasts visited tobacco farms and tasted new cigar brands.

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 Silvia Izquierdo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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