Sep. 08, 2023 00:13 AM EST

Ap Week In Pictures: Latin America And Caribbean

Jaime Zorondo, left, accompanied by relatives, descends the stairs that leads to a tunnel at the National Stadium once used as a prison and place of torture, where he was detained on Sept. 1973, in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023. Zorondo is taking part in a meeting of former detainees as part of the 50th commemoration of the military coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet that overthrew Chile's late President Salvador Allende. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) Esteban Felix, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jaime Zorondo, left, accompanied by relatives, descends the stairs that leads to a tunnel at the National Stadium once used as a prison and place of torture, where he was detained on Sept. 1973, in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023. Zorondo is taking part in a meeting of former detainees as part of the 50th commemoration of the military coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet that overthrew Chile's late President Salvador Allende. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
A couple sits inside a Volkswagen beetle emblazoned with the image of Argentina soccer star Lionel Messi and coach Lionel Scaloni, outside the Argentina Soccer Association facilities prior to a team training session in preparation for a qualifying soccer match for the FIFA World Cup 2026 against Ecuador, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A sculpture depicting half of a pair of black-framed glasses Chilean President Salvador Allende was wearing when he died, is displayed in the patio of the National Museum of History in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. Gen. Augusto Pinochet led a military coup on Sept. 11, 1973, that included the bombing of the presidential palace in the capital of Santiago, where Allende had taken refuge. Allende died by suicide during the assault. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Claudia Sheinbaum speaks after being elected to be the MORENA party candidate for the upcoming national presidential elections, during an event in Mexico City, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
A woman holds up a soccer jersey that reads in Spanish "J Hermoso 10, It's Over," in support of Spanish soccer player Jennifer Hermoso before a women's friendly soccer match between Mexico's Club America and Spain's Real Madrid outside the Azteca stadium in Mexico City, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Ruiz Ruiz)
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Sept. 1 – Sept. 7, 2023

In Buenos Aires, a couple dances Tango in the World Championship final round. In Chile, locals commemorate the 50th anniversary that brought Gen. Augusto Pinochet to power. In South America fans prepped for the FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifying round and in Brazil a cyclone washed away houses, trapped motorists in vehicles and swamped streets

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean. It was curated by AP Photojournalist Moises Castillo in Guatemala

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