2018's best from Latin America and Caribbean

SUMMARY

Here are images that remind us of the memorable events that took place in the region in 2018.

By APDec 21, 2018 4:59:11 PM IST (Updated)

US-bound Central American migrants cross between the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca after federal police briefly blocked their caravan outside the town of Arriaga, Mexico. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Police detain a protester after a May Day march where people protested pension cuts, school closures and slow hurricane recovery efforts in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Fans of Uruguay's Penarol soccer team cheer before the start of a Copa Libertadores soccer match against Argentina's Atletico Tucuman in Montevideo, Uruguay. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

Volcanic ash covers a dining room set after the Volcano of Fire erupted in San Miguel Los Lotes, Guatemala. The most active volcano in Central America killed 194 people while another 234 are officially missing. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Women who want to decriminalize abortion get soaked as they protest outside Congress where lawmakers are debating the issue in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Senate decided against legalizing elective abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Julia Flores Colque, born on October 26, 1900 in a mining camp in the Bolivian mountains, looks into the camera outside her home in Sacaba, Bolivia. At age 117, Colque is be the oldest woman in the Andean nation and perhaps the oldest living person in the world. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)