A pair of four-month-old white lion cubs play together in their enclosure at the Altiplano Zoo in Tlaxcala, Mexico, Aug. 7, 2018. Just over a dozen white lions remain in the wild, according to the Global While Lion Protection Trust, based in South Africa, though several hundred are held in zoos around the world, including several in Mexico. They are not albinos, but have coloration that results from a genetic rarity. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

In this July 25, 2018 photo published in August, a Cuban special brigade first lieutenant police officer walks with his son to a neighborhood party where they will cook a large stew, in Guantanamo, Cuba, near the U.S. naval base. It is tradition in Cuba for neighbors to pool their efforts to cook a large stew, using pork. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Julia Flores Colque eyes the camera while sitting outside her home in Sacaba, Bolivia, Aug. 23, 2018. Her national identity card says Flores Colque was born on Oct. 26, 1900 in a mining camp in the Bolivian mountains. At 117 and just over 10 months, she would be the oldest woman in the Andean nation and perhaps the oldest living person in the world. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Angel Lucena of Paraguay's Libertad, left, heads the ball alongside Edwin Cardona Argentina's Boca Juniors during a Copa Libertadores soccer match in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

In this July 18, 2018 photo published in August, Sica Sica Councilwoman Damiana Condori, who said she gave up her position due to harassment from the male alternate, poses for a photo in Sica Sica, Bolivia. Record numbers of women are holding public office, more than half its legislators are women but these gains are being accompanied by rising violence against female office-holders. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Colombia's President Ivan Duque, fifth from left, walks with his new Defense Minister Guillermo Botero, fourth from left, as they review troops with military officials during a ceremony in Bogota, Colombia, Aug. 14, 2018. At the ceremony, Botero formally took command of the armed forces. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Paulina Tineo Canchari cries as she stands before the many coffins of relatives killed by the Shining Path guerrillas and the Peruvian army in the 1980s, during their proper burial in Quinuas, in Peru's Ayacucho province, Aug. 15, 2018. Thousands of Peruvian families who have spent decades wondering about loved ones who disappeared during years of bloody conflict between the state and Maoist guerrillas have new hopes for getting the closure they have been searching for. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A youth performs the "Paquchi" dance, wearing a mask made from a plastic cooking oil container, during the first student festival featuring folkloric and autochthonous dance in El Alto, Bolivia, Aug. 14, 2018. Students from the San Roque public school created their costumes from recycled materials to raise solid-waste management awareness. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

An uniformed official bleeds from the head following an incident during a speech by Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018. Seven people were injured in the apparent attack which came as Maduro celebrated the National Guard's 81st anniversary. Maduro's speech was abruptly cut short and soldiers could be seen breaking ranks and scattering. (Xinhua via AP)

A supporter of Brazil's jailed, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is carried in a hammock while he is on hunger strike to protest the former leader's corruption conviction, during a march in Brasilia, Brazil, Aug. 15 2018. The Workers' Party registered da Silva as its candidate for president Wednesday, attempting to muscle him into the race to lead Latin America's largest nation and forcing a showdown with Brazilian electoral authorities. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Family members of slain Ronald Blanco clean his blood from the alleyway of the Japon neighborhood where the Barrio 18 gang operates Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Aug. 2, 2018. Family members sprinkled holy water and prayed at the site before working to wash away the blood stains, as passing neighbors gave them their condolences. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

A woman wears a cardboard hat with dry grass on top and letters in Spanish that read "CLAP," referring to government subsidized food through the "CLAP" program, which stands for Local Committees of Supply and Production, during a protests against the government of President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, Aug. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Members of Paraguay's Bolivian community perform in costume during a street procession in honor of Our Lady of Urkupina, in Asuncion, Paraguay, Aug. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Judge Juan Gonzales shows his handcuffs to the press after he was detained by anti-corruption police in Lima, Peru, Aug. 20, 2018. Gonzalez was detained after allegedly receiving a little more than the equivalent of 1,000 dollars to rule in favor of a group of criminals. (Renzo Salazar/Peru 21 via AP)

A young watches as her homemade kite takes flight in the Complexo da Penha slum's Chatuba neighborhood, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Argentina's former President Cristina Fernandez gets into a car to go to a court hearing in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 13, 2018. Fernandez is expected to give testimony as part of a corruption probe sparked by the recent release of an investigation on illicit dealings during the governments of the ex-president, her late husband and predecessor, Nestor Kirchner. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A fisherman jumps on to his wooden boat, joining his mates as they head out to the sea from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Aug. 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Men utilize cardboard boxes to shade themselves from the sun's rays sun as they wait in line to take part in a vehicle census announced by Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro, as a first step to regulate the sale of gasoline, at Bolivar Square in Caracas, Venezuela, Aug. 3, 2018. The census started today. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

A demonstrator holds an Argentine flag of Argentina's late President Juan Domingo Peron and first lady Evita near Plaza de Mayo, during a protest in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 30, 2018. People are demonstrating in support of public university education, demanding raises for teachers and more investment in higher level, public education. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A woman attends a demonstration in support of decriminalizing abortion, outside the Argentine embassy in Quito, Ecuador, Aug. 8, 2018. Argentina's Senate is debating legislation that would legalize elective abortions in the first 14 months of pregnancy, an issue that bitterly divides the homeland of Pope Francis. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Zoo Keeper Mariano Narvaez trains Pupy, and African elephant at the "eco-park" in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 7, 2018. The recent deaths of the two animals have fueled charges by conservationists that an attempt by the Buenos Aires' government to turn a 140-year-old zoo into an "eco-park" and relocate most of its 1,500 animals to sanctuaries has been a poorly planned disaster. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A man wears a mask depicting the Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva during a Workers Party national convention in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Aug. 4, 2018. The convention confirmed the jailed Lula da Silva as their candidate for the country's presidency in October's election. Da Silva leads the polls by a large margins, but is likely to be barred by Brazil's electoral justice. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)

12-year-old Carlos Santamaria Diaz poses for photographers during a press event at Mexico's National Autonomous University in Mexico City, Friday, Aug. 3, 2018. The university, better known by its Spanish initials as the UNAM, said Thursday that Carlos Santamaria Diaz is the youngest such student in the university's roughly century-long history.(AP Photo / Marco Ugarte)

Forensic investigators examine the crime scene where a man was executed while driving his car, in San Salvador, El Salvador, Aug. 20, 2018. El Salvador is considered one of the world's most violent countries, and authorities say the country's tens of thousands of gang members are involved in the majority of the nation's crimes. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Children run through an illuminated fountain near the National Palace in San Salvador, El Salvador, Aug. 19, 2018. Earlier this year, the capital opened its newly-renovated downtown heart, with a pedestrian zone linking several updated squares in the capital's historic center. Where public transit buses and market stalls once clogged the streets, local residents enticed by both new amenities and greater security now stroll, play, or watch street concerts. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Argentine couple Maksim Gerasimov and Agustina Piaggio compete in the stage category at the World Tango Championship final in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Men pull on the tail of a young bull during the running of the bulls in Pillaro, Ecuador, Aug. 4, 2018. Dozens of bulls run through this small Andean city and allowed spontaneous bullfighters shine with their pirouettes and with more than one accident among the curious. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Venezuelan migrants wait for a decision from immigration authorities that allows them to enter Ecuador without a passport after the deadline passed on new regulations that demand passports from migrants, in Rumichaca, Ecuador, Aug. 18, 2018. The United Nations estimates 2.3 million Venezuelans have fled since 2014, the majority of them going to Colombia or Peru.(AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

A woman uses her smartphone to surf the internet in Havana, Cuba, Aug. 22, 2018. The state telecommunications company launched on Wednesday the latest, and most extensive, of a recent series of test runs of a mobile network that would give citizens greater access to the internet than has existed before on the island. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

Brazil's former finance minister Henrique Meirelles, center, celebrates with supporters at the end of The Brazilian Democratic Movement party convention, in Brasilia, Brazil, Aug. 2, 2018. The Brazilian Democratic Movement announced Meirelles as its candidate for the upcoming October election. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

A street vendor pushes a wheelbarrow on which her baby daughter sleeps next to plantains for sale, at a central plaza in San Salvador, El Salvador, Aug. 19, 2018. Earlier this year, the capital opened its newly-renovated downtown heart, with a pedestrian zone linking several updated squares in the capital's historic center. Where public transit buses and market stalls once clogged the streets, local residents enticed by both new amenities and greater security now stroll, watch street concerts, or play in the illuminated water fountain. No longer authorized to have fixed stands, vendors can operate as long as they keep moving. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

In this photo released by Argentina's Senate press office, protesters demonstrate in support of loosening the abortion law, left, and against abortion, right, in this photo taken from Congress where lawmakers are debating the issue in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 8, 2018. Following months of increasingly tense debate, lawmakers are meeting ahead of a vote on a bill that would decriminalize abortions up to the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. (Delfina Linares/Argentine Senate via AP)

A capuchin monkey peers from a cage at a police station after being recovered from a vendor's street stall in La Paz, Bolivia, Aug. 28, 2018. The monkey, which is illegal to have as a pet, will be taken to a refuge where it will be rehabilitated before being released back into into its natural habitat, according to police. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Geraldo Alckmin, former Sao Paulo governor and presidential hopeful with the Social Democratic Party, gets his make up done during a break at a presidential debate in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Aug. 10, 2018. Brazil will hold general elections on Oct. 7. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Tear gas explodes around a protestor as university students clash with police while protesting an increase in public transport fares and calling for a drop in the price of gasoline in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Aug. 1, 2018. Negotiated fare hikes for public transport went into effect on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)

Leaders, from left, Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno, Argentina's President Mauricio Macri, Chile's President Sebastian Pinera and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto use umbrellas as it rains during the inauguration ceremony for Colombia's new President Ivan Duque in Bogota, Colombia, Aug. 7, 2018. The young protégé of a powerful former president was sworn in as Colombia’s new leader Tuesday, tasked with guiding the implementation of a peace accord with leftist rebels that remains on shaky ground. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

In this July 30, 2018 photo published in August, revelers play in and around a huge burning papier mache bull full of exploding fireworks, in the Santiago Teyuhalco neighborhood of Tultepec, Mexico. Last year there were 40 fireworks accidents in the State of Mexico, where Tultepec is located, that claimed 24 lives and injured more than 100, according to the governmental Mexican Institute of Pyrotechnics; through July 5 of this year, there have been 16 accidents with 40 dead and more than 70 hurt. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Cruz Azul's Caraglio Milton celebrates after scoring against Leon during a national league soccer match at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, Aug. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/ Eduardo Verdugo)

A woman watches news regarding U.S. dollar rates in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 30, 2018. Argentina's Central Bank on Thursday increased its benchmark interest rate to 60 percent — the world's highest — in an effort to halt a sharp slide in the value of the peso, which plunged to a new record low. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Fernando Rodriguez Garcia covers his family with a plastic sheet during a sudden downpour as he and his family take a walk through Alameda park in Mexico City, Aug. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Anthony Vazquez)

Women in support of decriminalizing abortion protest in the rain outside Congress where lawmakers are debating the issue in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 8, 2018. The Senate is debating a bill Wednesday that would legalize elective abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy in the homeland of Pope Francis, setting up a vote that could reverberate around the region. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Mariuxi Hinojosa representing the Waranka people, watches herself in a mirror before her presentation in the election of Sara Nusta, or Indigenous Queen pageant, in Quito, Ecuador Aug. 31, 2018. Indigenous women form different ethnicities participated in this annual event to elect the most beautiful indigenous woman of the country. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Paraguay's new President Mario Abdo Benitez rides in an open top car with his wife Silvana Lopez, after his inauguration ceremony at "Lopez Palace" in Asuncion, Paraguay, Aug. 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Catholic Priest Justino Limachi blesses dogs by sprinkling them with holy water after a Mass at the parish of Villa Adela to celebrate the feast of San Roque, the patron saint of dogs, in El Alto, Bolivia, Aug. 16, 2018. Every Aug. 16, the church holds he feast of San Roque, or Saint Roch, who legend has it was a 14th century French noble who traveled to Italy to care for plague victims. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Firecrackers go off as a supporter in favor of a decision by Guatemala's President Jimmy Morales to shut down a U.N.-sponsored anti-graft commission led by Ivan Velasquez, protests outside the United Nations International Commission Against Impunity, CICIG, headquarters in Guatemala City, Aug. 31, 2018. Last week the Supreme Court allowed a request brought by the CICIG and Guatemalan prosecutors to strip Morales' immunity from prosecution to go to Congress for consideration. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Humberto Castillo, 72, offers sun flowers for sale or to exchange them for food, at a street market in Caracas, Venezuela, Aug. 18, 2018. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro raised wages for the fifth time this year while saying he's looking to establish a single exchange rate tied to the nation's fledgling cryptocurrency. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Transgender Carolina, dressed as a "china", poses for a photo with Majestic Union band members during celebrations honoring Our Lady of Copacabana in Cuzco, Peru, Aug. 5, 2018. Despite the persistent discrimination suffered by members of the LGBT community in the country, Carolina says she and her friends are invited every year to take part in the religious celebration. "I never feel discrimination," said Carolina, "and sometimes I receive a little money for my dancing." (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Luiz Fernando of Brazil's Botafogo celebrates his goal against Paraguay's Nacional during a Copa Sudamericana soccer game in Asuncion, Paraguay, Aug. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

A girl holding her doll watches a military parade marking the 481th anniversary of the founding of Asuncion, Paraguay, Aug. 15, 2018. Paraguay's new President Mario Abdo Benitez was sworn-in before the parade. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Pro-choice activists in favor of decriminalizing abortion wear costumes from the Handmaid's Tale, a book and now television series, as they march through Remembrance Park, created to honor the victims of state terrorism and lists the names of those who disappeared during Argentina's last military dictatorship, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 5, 2018. The Senate voted against expanding legal abortion on Aug. 8. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Latin America & Caribbean in review

Latin America and Caribbean in Review

Latin America and Caribbean in Review

Latin America & Caribbean in review

Latin America & Caribbean in Review