Latin America and Caribbean in Review

Latin America and Caribbean in Review is a monthly gallery featuring some of the top photojournalism made by AP staff photographers and freelancers during the month of May. 

The month of May saw continued anti-government protests in Nicaragua, where 110 people have been killed since mid-April amid clashes between forces loyal to President Daniel Ortega and opposition groups demanding his removal; Venezuela and Colombia held presidential elections, with Venezuela’s being boycotted by the opposition who called it rigged; and over 100 people lost their lives in Cuba when a plane crashed after takeoff from the Havana airport.

A demonstrator who was fatally shot in the head is carried by paramedics after clashes during a march against Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega in Managua, Nicaragua, Wednesday, May 30, 2018. Violence returned to protests against Ortega's government when riot police and government supporters confronted anti-government protesters during a mothers day march to commemorate those mothers who has lost children during the ongoing protests. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

A protestor waves a Nicaraguan national flag at a burning roadblock as protestors clash with police in the Monimbo district of Masaya, Nicaragua, Saturday, May 12, 2018. Protests began in April as students demonstrated against a social security reform. Many are now demanding that President Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo leave office. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga)

University students hold up backpacks soon crosses, representing killed student protesters, as they march against Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega in Managua, Nicaragua, Wednesday, May 30, 2018. The march ended in violence, as influential business leaders called for early elections to resolve a political standoff between Ortega's government and protesters demanding his exit from office. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

A mural of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is defaced at a campaign house for the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in Catarina, Nicaragua, Monday, May 7, 2018, the morning after anti-government demonstrators clashed with FSLN supporters and police. Deadly protests amid a harsh government crackdown weakened Ortega, one of the few leftist leaders remaining in power in Latin America, forcing him to pull back on social security reforms that sparked the unrest and facing a newly emboldened opposition determined to see him leave office. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

"Tree of Life" metal sculptures line the lake in Managua, Nicaragua, Friday, May 4, 2018. When protests against a change to Nicaragua's social security system turned confrontational, the favorite targets of the more destructive demonstrators were the so-called "Trees of Life" that line some of Managua's main thoroughfares. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Supporters of Gustavo Petro, who's running for president with Colombia Humana's party, attend a rally in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, May 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

A solider runs to his position to secure a road as part of electoral security ahead of the presidential election on the outskirts of Bogota, Colombia, Saturday, May 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

A white Gulfstream jet lies broken in half and engulfed in foam sprayed by firefighters, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Tuesday, May 22, 2018. The private jet crashed off the end of the runway, but the crew and passengers were rescued and out of danger, according to Honduras emergency management agency. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)

Inmates escorted by prison guards watch a soccer match in the San Juan de Lurigancho prison, in Lima, Peru, Thursday, May 24, 2018. Inmates of 17 prisons, including four for women, participated in the First Interprison World Cup Lima 2018, organized by the National Penitentiary Institute. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Diego Souza of Brazil's Sao Paulo, celebrates in front of a tv camera after scoring against Argentina's Rosario Central, during a Copa Sudamericana soccer match in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, May 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Neighborhood kids play soccer in the Jardim Peri neighborhood where professional soccer player Gabriel Jesus grew up and is featured in a mural on the side of homes in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, May 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

A government supporter holding a doll of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez wears a set of plastic hands over her eyes, at a presidential campaign rally for current President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, May 4, 2018. The election registered the lowest turnout in decades — around 46 percent — as many voters stayed home while the opposition warned the election was rigged. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

A Bolivarian Militia member plays the flute at a polling station during the presidential election in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, May 20, 2018. Before the government-controlled National Election Council declared current President Nicolas Maduro the overwhelming winner, nations around the world had accused him of taking Venezuela down the path toward "dictatorship." (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Supporters of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro celebrate his election outside the presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, May 20, 2018. Venezuela's fractured opposition emerged even more powerless Monday, a day after an election it boycotted propelled socialist President Nicolas Maduro to an easy victory amid a crushing economic crisis. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Honor guards prepare for the change-of-guard at the tomb of independence hero Simon Bolivar at the National Pantheon before the arrival of Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, May 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel, right, dances with children from the theater group "La Colmenita" at the opening session of the economic commission’s biennial meeting in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, May 8, 2018. The Castros' successor as president has broken from the immediate past, and made clear to Cubans that he will be operating far more like a conventional modern politician than the spotlight-shy general who selected him. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

Rescue teams search the wreckage site of a Boeing 737 that plummeted into a cassava field with more than 100 passengers on board in Havana, Cuba, Friday, May 18, 2018. The Cuban airliner crashed just after takeoff from Havana's international airport in Havana, Cuba. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A diver stays afloat in the Pacific Ocean at the end of an exploration excursion of a sunken ship close to the Ancon coast, near Lima, Peru, Sunday, May 27, 2018. The El Ferrol, an old cargo ship, ran aground in 2005 and sank in 2007. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Cuban soldiers take part in the annual May Day parade at Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, May 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A protester dressed as a police water cannon attends the annual May Day march in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, May 1, 2018. Workers and activists marked May Day with rallies to demand their government address labor issues. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Nicolas Guerra Ruz gets a kiss from teammate Angelo Araos, of Universidad de Chile, after they lost 0-1 to Racing Club a Copa Libertadores soccer match in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, May 3, 2018.(AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

Firefighters work in the the rubble of a building that caught fire and collapsed in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, May 1, 2018. The building collapsed as firefighters worked to put out the flames. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

A fan takes a selfie at the stadium before a major league baseball game between the San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers in Monterrey, Mexico, Friday, May 4, 2018. (AP Photo/ Eduardo Verdugo)

A man dressed as a revolutionary Zacapoaztla indigenous soldier eating a chicken leg attends the re-enactment of The Battle of Puebla between the Zacapoaztlas and French army during Cinco de Mayo celebrations in Mexico City, Saturday, May 5, 2018. Cinco de Mayo commemorates the victory of an ill-equipped Mexican army over French troops in Puebla on May 5, 1862. (AP Photo/Christian Palma)

A boy attends the wake of slain Guatemalan immigrant Claudia Gomez Gonzalez at her parents' home where they use an American flag as a curtain, in San Juan Ostuncalco, Guatemala, Friday, June 1, 2018. The 19-year-old, who was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Texas on May 23, had graduated as a forensic accountant but was unable to attend college or find a job, so she had left Guatemala for the U.S., according to her aunt. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

A topless woman with the Spanish message written on her back: "Fire to the patriarchy, morals and the state" confronts police using a water cannon during a feminist march in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, May 16, 2018. Students marched to protest sexual abuse, sexism and to demand equal opportunities for woman in education. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)

A member of the LGBT community looks into the camera while waiting for the start of a parade marking the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, in Pinar Del Rio, Cuba, Thursday, May 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

Santos' Osvaldo Martinez holds his team's championship trophy after winning the Mexican soccer final against Toluca in Toluca, Mexico, Sunday, May 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Protesters burn an effigy of U.S. President Donald Trump during a demonstration marking May Day to honor workers in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, May, 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Men and women holding machetes upright protest the disappearance of 43 students nearly four years ago in Mexico City, Saturday, May 26, 2018. The rural college students mysteriously vanished on Sept. 26, 2014 in Iguala when they were interrupted on their way to demonstration by police. Family members and protestors continually march to demand justice for the 43. (AP Photo/Anthony Vazquez)

An Andean man rests with his llama as tourists visit Rainbow Mountain in Pitumarca, Peru, March 2, 2018. Stripes of turquoise, lavender and gold blanket what has become known as “Rainbow Mountain,” a ridge of multicolored sediments laid down millions of years ago and pushed up as tectonic plates clashed. This March photo published in May. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

In this photo released by the Brazilian Football Confederation, CBF, Brazil's soccer player Neymar undergoes physical and medical exams at the Granja Comary training center, in Teresopolis, Brazil, Tuesday, May 22, 2018. Neymar will be expected to play about 45 minutes of the friendly against Croatia in Liverpool on June 3, the first of two for Brazil before the World Cup. (Lucas Figueiredo/CBF via AP)

A tourist waves to passengers of the Norwegian Bliss ship as the ship makes its way through the canal, one of the largest ships to ever navigate it, in Agua Clara, Panama, Monday, May 14, 2018. Norwegian Bliss is the largest ship in Norwegian's fleet, with 20 decks and a capacity of about 4,000 passengers. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

People greet presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who arrives for his campaign rally in Mexico City, Monday, May 7, 2018. Mexico will choose a new president in general elections on July 1. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Blood trickles down the face of Russia's Aleksei Oleinik during his UFC heavyweight mixed martial arts bout with Brazil's Junior Albini in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, May 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Rain drops accumulate on a car's windshield as commuters wait at a red light in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, May 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

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Curated by photo editors for Latin America and Caribbean Leslie Mazoch, Anita Baca and Tomas Stargardter at the AP Latin America photo editing hub in Mexico City.