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AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Nov. 23- 30, 2023 A woman walks on a dried-out portion of Lake Titicaca in Coata, Peru. Demonstrators who are demanding the resignation of Attorney General Consuelo Porras consume a roast pig during a protest near the Congress building in Guatemala City. A full moon rises over the...
AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Nov. 17-23, 2023 Miss Nicaragua won the Miss Universe competition in El Salvador, the first to wear the crown from her country. The deaths of two people, muggings and a dangerous heat wave left legions of Taylor Swift’s Brazilian fans angry and disappointed in the three-day Rio de...
AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Nov. 10-16, 2023 It’s still spring in Brazil, but a dangerous heat wave is sweeping across large swathes of the country. Protesters gathered in Mexico City over the violent death of Jesús Ociel Baena, the first openly nonbinary person to assume a judicial post in Mexico. A heavily...
Drinks giant Diageo sees share price slide after warning about sales in Caribbean and Latin America
LONDON (AP) — Spirits and beer giant Diageo PLC saw billions wiped off its market value on Friday after it warned that a sharp slowdown in its business in Latin America and the Caribbean was hitting sales and potential profits. In early trading in London, the company's share price...
AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Nov. 3 to Nov. 9, 2023 Thousands of “Swiftes” filled the Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires for Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, the superstar’s first-ever concert in Argentina. The Pan American Games Santiago 2023 came to a close as Mexico had its best performance with a mix of...
U.S. athletes finish Pan American Games with more gold medals but fewer podiums than four years ago
The United States roster of 631 athletes at the Pan American Games finished on the top of the medal table for the 17th time, as expected, but with fewer podiums than four years ago in Lima. American athletes in Chile won 124 gold medals, two more than in Peru. Medal tables at sports...
AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Oct 27 – Nov 2, 2023 The resort city of Acapulco is battered by a monster category 5 hurricane leaving it shell-shocked, while Mexico City plays host to the Mexico Grand Prix Formula One race with favorite son and local hero Sergio Perez being knocked out at the start of the race...
Colombian police continue search for father of Liverpool striker Díaz
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian police continued their search for the father of Liverpool striker Luis Díaz on Sunday, one day after he was kidnapped with his wife near the country's border with Venezuela. Luis Manuel Díaz and Cilenis Marulanda were kidnapped on Saturday by...
Boxers La Cruz and López recover some pride for Cuba at Pan American Games
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Once a sports superpower, Cuba now celebrates every gold medal at the Pan American Games. Two of them came on Friday with two-time Olympic boxing champions and kept the team from the Communist island in competition with its Caribbean rivals the Dominican...
AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Oct. 20-26, 2023 Mexicans kick off their Day of the Dead celebrations with a Catrina parade along the iconic Reforma Avenue in Mexico City, Chile hosts Olympic hopefuls from 41 nations competing in the Pan American Games and Hurricane Otis, expected as a tropical storm just below...
