April 18-24, 2025
Latin Americans mourned the death of Pope Francis, who was from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Revelers in Panama City marked Good Friday with a Way of the Cross reenactment. A bus collided with a vehicle in Santiago, Chile, leaving various dead and injured. Katy Perry performed in concert in Mexico City.
A penitent depicting the role of Jesus Christ is crowned by a fellow devotees playing the role of Roman soldiers, during the Via Crucis or Way of the Cross reenactment in Panama City, on Good Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
A penitent depicting the role of Jesus Christ is crowned by a fellow devotees playing the role of Roman soldiers, during the Via Crucis or Way of the Cross reenactment in Panama City, on Good Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Latin America and the Caribbean.
Miners demand a solution to the diesel shortage and economic crisis, in front of a billboard of President Luis Arce, outside the Mining and Metallurgy Ministry in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Miners demand a solution to the diesel shortage and economic crisis, in front of a billboard of President Luis Arce, outside the Mining and Metallurgy Ministry in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Genali Nogales touches a painting of the late Pope Francis at the Basílica de San José de Flores, where he worshipped as a youth, following the Vatican’s announcement of his death in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)
Genali Nogales touches a painting of the late Pope Francis at the Basílica de San José de Flores, where he worshipped as a youth, following the Vatican’s announcement of his death in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)
Men gather at a Hogares de Cristo community center in the Carlos Mugica neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, part of a network for drug addicts originally supported by then-Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio, the late Pope Francis, who passed away on Monday, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Men gather at a Hogares de Cristo community center in the Carlos Mugica neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, part of a network for drug addicts originally supported by then-Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio, the late Pope Francis, who passed away on Monday, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A street artists chalks a portrait of the late Pope Francis outside the Cathedral in Buenos Aires, Argentina Monday, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A street artists chalks a portrait of the late Pope Francis outside the Cathedral in Buenos Aires, Argentina Monday, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Rayan of Brazil’s Vasco da Gama, lies on the pitch during a Copa Sudamericana Group G soccer match against Argentina’s Lanus at Sao Januario stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Rayan of Brazil’s Vasco da Gama, lies on the pitch during a Copa Sudamericana Group G soccer match against Argentina’s Lanus at Sao Januario stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
The selection was curated by AP photographer Natacha Pisarenko, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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