Stunning pictures of last week from Latin America

SUMMARY

This photo gallery highlights some of the top news images made by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean that were published in the past week.

By APJan 19, 2019 6:49:08 PM IST (Published)

Juan Guaido, President of the Venezuelan National Assembly delivers a speech during a public session with opposition members, at a street in Caracas, Venezuela. The head of Venezuela's opposition-run congress says that with the nation's backing he's ready to take on Nicolas Maduro's presidential powers and call new elections.(AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Santos Isabel Escobar weeps beside the coffin of her son, Eddy Fernando Cabrera, 18, during his wake in the same street where he was executed the night before along with four other young people in the Villanueva neighborhood of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. A bleak combination of powerful drivers like poverty and gang violence leads many Hondurans to see emigration as the only possibility for a decent life.(AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)

A boy plays as floodlights from the United States filter through the border wall in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

An armed gang member poses for a picture on the south side of La Saline slum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, almost a month after a massacre on November 13. La Saline is mostly controlled by armed young men allied with opponents of President Jovenel Moise. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Jan Brabec of Czech Republic falls from his Husqvarna motorbike during the stage nine of the Dakar Rally in Pisco, Peru. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

A sculpture of a Plesiosaur is displayed at an exhibit about the studies of researchers from the National Museum made in Antartica, during a media presentation of the exhibit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Firefighter Daniel Rodriguez sells calendars to a couple of women in Asuncion, Paraguay. Firefighters in the town of San Roque Gonzalez launched a campaign to sell calendars featuring nude pictures of themselves, to help fund their fire station. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)