Latin America & Caribbean in Review

This monthly gallery features some of the top photojournalism made by Associated Press photographers documenting Latin America and the Caribbean during the month of March.

COVID-19 patients lay in beds in the cafeteria area, which was repurposed to treat more patients at the Institute of Social Security Quito Sur Hospital in Quito, Ecuador, March 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Youths who cull through trash for items to resell ride past a mother and child on the back of a garbage truck entering the Pavia landfill on the outskirts of Barquisimeto, Venezuela, March 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

People lower the remains of Elfego Miranda Diaz into a grave, a Guatemalan migrant who was killed near the U.S.-Mexico border in January, at a cemetery in Comitancillo, Guatemala, March 13, 2021. Residents received the remains of 16 of their own, found piled in a charred pickup truck in Camargo, across the Rio Grande from Texas. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

A member of the God's Love Evangelical Church and Rehab Center holds his hand in prayer over a drug user in an area known as "cracolandia" or crackland, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

A guard holds the gate where inmates wait 15 minutes after getting a voluntary shot of the Sinovac vaccine for COVID-19 at Santiago Vázquez prison on the outskirts of Montevideo, Uruguay, March 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

Cemetery workers lower the coffin of a COVID-19 victim into a grave at the Vila Formosa cemetery at night in Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)

A woman carrying a shield clenches her fist as she shouts during a demonstration on International Women's Day in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A Mexican long-tongued bat is held by Mexico's National Autonomous University, UNAM, Ecology Institute Biologist Rodrigo Medellin after it was briefly captured for a study at the university's botanical gardens in Mexico City, March 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

A person lies on the ground before dawn, waiting for his group to be ready to leave on foot from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, March 30, 2021. The group of migrants aims to reach the U.S. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)

A boy bicycle kicks a ball in a flooded area of the Belen community in Iquitos, Peru, March 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A woman walks past police who dispersed coca farmers in Unduavi, Bolivia, March 16, 2021. The farmers blocked traffic to protest the relocation of the coca market and a court ruling recognizing a new leader of the Coca Producers Association. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

A boy runs out from the Nissan auto dealership set ablaze during a protest by a sector of the police force known as Fantom 509 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 17, 2021. The dealership was looted and vandalized after officers stormed and set ablaze some police stations, freeing jailed comrades accused of participating in an alleged coup against embattled President Jovenel Moise. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

A person wears a T-shirt featuring the image of Ricardo González Gutiérrez, the legendary clown known as Cepillín, or "Toothbrush,” during González's wake in Tlalnepantla de Baz, State of Mexico, March 9, 2021. The 75-year-old began his career as a dentist who painted his face so children would not be afraid of him while he worked on their teeth. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

A vendor gives a complimentary, homemade guava pastry to an elderly woman in Havana, Cuba, March 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A child sits on a motorcycle as the Pacaya volcano erupts in the background, viewed from San Vicente Pacaya, Guatemala, March 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy )

Demonstrators attack police holding up shields protecting the National Palace, the presidential office, during a march commemorating International Women's Day and protesting gender violence in Mexico City, March 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A health worker rolls in an oxygen tank at the Ana Francisca Perez de Leon II public Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Caracas, Venezuela, March 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Migrants disembark on the Mexican side of the border after crossing the Usumacinta River from Guatemala, in Frontera Corozal, Chiapas state, Mexico, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Youth protest the shortage of medications for COVID-19 patients in hospitals and the low availability of the vaccine after the resignation of the country’s health minister in Asuncion, Paraguay, March 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Students attend their first day back to in-person class amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Santiago, Chile, March 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

A child looks through a fence at a shelter set up in a community center in Arauquita, Colombia, March 25, 2021, on the border with Venezuela. Venezuelans are fleeing their towns following clashes between Venezuela's military and a Colombian armed group. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Plastic bottles and garbage float on the Tagaret River, which flows into Uru Uru Lake, near Oruro, Bolivia, March 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

The shell of a burned car sits in a field ravaged by a forest fire in Las Golondrinas, in the Chubut province of Argentina, March 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Garay)

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This gallery was edited by AP photojournalist Moises Castillo in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

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