The most 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 that were published in the past week.

By APMar 30, 2019 1:11:26 PM IST (Published)

Unemployed line up to attend a job fair in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Guests wait for groom Juan Jose Pocaterra and bride Maria Fernanda Vera to arrive to their destination wedding in Acarigua, Venezuela. The wedding guests included wealthy landowners, opposition politicians and a former student leader who nearly lost an eye during an anti-government protest. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A puppeteer presents his hand puppets during an event at the National Culture Museum in Mexico City. The event was held in honour of World Puppetry Day, observed earlier in the week on March 21. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro flashes two thumbs up standing next to Adm. Marcus Vinicius Oliveira dos Santos, Supreme Military Court president, who presented Bolsonaro with the Order of Military Judicial Merit, in Brasilia, Brazil. Bolsonaro, a former army captain who waxes nostalgic for the 1964-1985 dictatorship, on Monday asked Brazil's Defense Ministry to organize "due commemorations" to mark the upcoming March 31st anniversary of Brazil's 1964 military coup. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Yellow police tape and a shoe lay on the ground in the place where an accident occurred, in Nahuala, Guatemala. A large truck slammed into a crowd gathered on a dark highway in western Guatemala, killing over a dozen people and leaving bodies scattered on the roadway, firefighters said. (AP Photo/Sandra Sebastian)

A resident grieves as a group of men carry away a coffin containing the remains of a victim of a highway accident, in Nahuala, Guatemala. A large truck slammed into a crowd gathered on a dark highway in western Guatemala, killing over a dozen people and leaving bodies scattered on the roadway, firefighters said. Health Minister Carlos Soto said that 18 others, including children, were injured and taken to hospitals. (AP Photo/Sandra Sebastian)

A government supporter cradles a child as she listens to Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro during an anti-imperialist rally in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Bolivia's "Batallon Colorados," sing the national anthem during an event honouring national hero Eduardo Abaroa, who died in the 1879-1883 War of the Pacific, as part of Sea Day celebrations in La Paz, Bolivia. Bolivians are marking the first Day of the Sea after the International Court of Justice in The Hague in October 2018 rejected a bid by Bolivia to force Chile to negotiate access to the Pacific Ocean. Bolivia lost its route to the sea in a war with Chile. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Former Archbishop of Santiago, Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati, takes part in a Mass at the Cathedral of Santiago, Chile, the day after Pope Francis replaced him as archbishop after he was placed under criminal investigation. Chilean sex abuse survivors have long accused Ezzati and his predecessor in Santiago, Cardinal Javier Errazuriz, of protecting predator priests and discrediting victims. Ezzati has denied covering up any cases. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Prince Charles drives a vintage car with his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, during a cultural event in Havana, Cuba. The heir to the British throne arrived in Cuba Sunday with an agenda including visits to historic sites, a solar park, organic farm, bio-medical research centre, a meeting with entrepreneurs, a cultural gala and a dinner with Cuba's president. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A mural of Nelson Mandela, who spent many of his imprisoned years in an island prison in South Africa, adorns a gate in front of the dock where prison staff and inmates arrive in Navy boats to the now-closed Islas Maria penal colony located off Mexico's Pacific coast. Islas Marias was the last of its kind, the final of a half dozen island penal colonies that were scattered around Latin America. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)