Latin America and Caribbean in Review

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

Sissa de la Cruz, left, and Sisa Guandinango, fight for the ball during a handball match in the Indigenous community of Turucu, Ecuador, June 14, 2024. One year ago, a group of women decided to create a new version of soccer: handball wearing traditional skirts known as with anaco. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Maijuna youth Segundo Jeinsen bathes in a stream in Sucusari, Peru, May 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A reveler is silhouetted against a pair of angel wings while helping a trans performer with a pair of wings during a Gay Pride parade marking the culmination of LGBTQ+ Pride month, in Asuncion, Paraguay, June 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

A customer selects a bag of pet fish at a fish market in Mexico City, June 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A migrant child runs through an area of the Peace Oasis of the Holy Spirit Amparito shelter where migrants lie sleeping on mats, in Villahermosa, Mexico, June 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

A fan cheers before the start of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup final cricket match between India and South Africa, at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados, June 29, 2024. India went on to win the T20 World Cup. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

An abortion rights activist with a message on her chest that reads in Portuguese: "How much is a rapist worth", takes part in a march against an anti-abortion congressional bill, in Sao Paulo, June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Ettore Chiereguini)

Supporters of President Luis Arce chase soldiers as they flee from Plaza Murillo, after what Arce called a failed coup attempt, in La Paz, Bolivia, June 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Bolivian President Luis Arce raises a clenched fist surrounded by supporters and media, outside the government palace after what he called an attempted coup, in La Paz, Bolivia, June 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Kenyan police stand at their base in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June 26, 2024. The first contingent of U.N.-backed foreign police arrived the previous day, nearly two years after the Caribbean country requested help to quell gang violence. (AP Photo/Marckinson Pierre)

Venezuela migrant Naiber Zerpa holds her son Mathias as they arrive at a temporary camp after walking across the Darien Gap from Colombia, in Lajas Blancas, Panama, June 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A speckled Zebu cow sleeps inside a stable at the ExpoZebu fair, in Uberaba, Minas gerais state, April 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Cranes load and unload containers from cargo ships at Rodman Port, after Panama Canal authorities reported they will increase vessel transits through the interoceanic waterway following drought-related restrictions, in Panama City, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

The family member of a prisoner on hunger strike, chants during a demonstration against conditions in the jails and slow judicial procedures, as police form a cordon to keep the protesters from blocking Bolivar Avenue in Caracas, Venezuela, June 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

A girl rides a mechanical bull during a festival marking Saint John’s Day, in Brasilia, Brazil, June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Ruling party presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum raises her fist as she leaves the polling station where she voted during general elections in Mexico City, June 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

A Volkswagen Beetle, known in Mexico as a "vocho," parades through the streets a day after World Vocho Day, in Mexico City, June 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Anti-government protesters clash with police outside Congress as lawmakers debate a reform bill promoted by President Javier Milei, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

A masked anti-government protester aims a toy gun during a demonstration outside Congress where lawmakers debate a reform bill promoted by President Javier Milei, characterized in the poster on left as The Terminator with a message that reads, “Hasta la Vista poor one, ExterMileiTor”, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Cricket coach Gurpreet Singh, left, shows Aarush Atulannant how to grip the ball during his first training session in Mexico City, June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

A devotee arrives at the main plaza in Cotacachi, Ecuador, June 24, 2024, to thank the Indigenous Incan sun god for the harvest during the Inti Raymi, or Sun Festival. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Police inspect two trains that collided in San Bernardo, Santiago, Chile, June 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

A woman sits in lotus prayer pose during the "Yoga at the Sunrise" event on Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro, June 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

A reveler, who goes by the name Cat, strikes a pose during a Gay Pride parade marking the culmination of LGBTQ+ Pride month, in Santiago, Chile, June 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Anteaters play on the grounds of the non-profit wildlife park Selva Teneek where animals are being treated for heat stress amid a continuing heat wave and drought, in Ciudad Valles, Mexico, June 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Mauricio Palos)

Contestant Kali Divine prepares for a drag queen contest, in Panama City, June 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

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Lead photo: A child rappels over a stretch of the Essequibo River, using the rope of a ship docked in Parika, Guyana, June 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

This gallery was curated by photojournalist Dolores Ochoa based in Quito.