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Black Santa Claus Visits Brazilian Favela and More: Latin America and Caribbean News in Photos

Por The Associated Press

Dec. 14, 2023

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1of15Rodrigo Franca prepares for his role as “Papai Negro” or Black Santa Claus, during a Christmas event at a school in the Cidade de Deus favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Dec. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/ Bruna Prado)Bruna Prado/APShow MoreShow Less

2of15A girl, wearing a headband with reindeer antlers, buys a Christmas tree with her family at the Jamaica market, in Mexico City, on Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)Fernando Llano/APShow MoreShow Less3of15 4of15A worker fumigates the streets of a neighborhood against the mosquito that spreads dengue, in Caracas, Venezuela, on December 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Matías Delacroix)Matias Delacroix/APShow MoreShow Less

5of15Posters of well-known people in Peru characterized as murder victims under the headline “What color are their dead? CASES,” on a wall in the Barranco district of Lima, Peru, on December 14, 2023. The artistic campaign seeks question the city’s elites for their indifference toward those killed in anti-government protests a year ago. Almost all of them were indigenous. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)Guadalupe Pardo/APShow MoreShow Less6of15 7of15Pilgrims gather outside the Basilica of Guadalupe to commemorate her feast day, in Mexico City, early on December 12, 2023. Devotees of Our Lady of Guadalupe gather in one of the largest religious pilgrimages of the world on the anniversary of one of the several apparitions of the Virgin Mary to a Mexican indigenous man named Juan Diego in 1531. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)Marco Ugarte/APShow MoreShow Less

8of15A passenger watches from a bus as a group of feminists demonstrate against a draft for the new Constitution, in Santiago, Chile, on December 14, 2023. Chileans have until December 17 to study its articles and decide whether to replace to the current one, imposed by the military dictatorship 41 years ago, or if they prefer another route for change. (AP Photo/Esteban Félix)Esteban Felix/APShow MoreShow Less9of15 10of15Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei (left), and his sister Karina arrive at the government palace after taking office, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 10, 2023. Two days later, Milei’s government announced measures economic measures that seek to tackle the serious crisis that the country is suffering, including a strong devaluation of the peso to 50%, cuts in aid and the closure of some ministries. (AP Photo/Julian Bongiovanni)Julian Bongiovanni/APShow MoreShow Less

11of15Firefighters throw water at supporters of Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, gathered outside the government palace after his inauguration, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 10, 2023. During his inaugural speech, Milei He presented figures that he said showed the extent of the nation’s economic “emergency” and tried to prepare the population for a shock adjustment with drastic cuts in public spending. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)Matilde Campodonico/APShow MoreShow Less12of15 13of15″Cartoneros” wet the collected recycled cardboard with water before weighing it at a recycling center, while cooling off in a fountain in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 11, 2023. South America’s second largest economy suffers from annual inflation 143% and four out of every 10 Argentines have fallen below the poverty line. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)Rodrigo Abd/APShow MoreShow Less

14of15A window frames a part of the coast full of debris after flooding caused by rising sea levels in the coastal community of El Bosque, facing the Gulf of Mexico, in Mexico, on Nov. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/ Felix Marquez Felix Marquez/APShow MoreShow Less15 of 15

Residents of the Brazilian favela Ciudad de Dios receive a visit from “Papai Negro,” or black Santa Claus, to kick off the Christmas season. Peruvian artists launched a campaign that seeks to question the capital’s elites for their indifference to the deaths of civilians during anti-government protests a year ago. The new president of Argentina announced cuts in energy and transportation subsidies in addition to a 50% devaluation of the peso to address the economic crisis suffered by the country.

This photo gallery highlights some of the best news images taken by The Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean published between December 8 and 14, 2023.

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The images were selected by Associated Press photo editor Anita Baca in Mexico City.

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2023-12-15 05:57:59
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