2023-12-28 08:02:02
With water up to her waist, in the middle of a river in the dangerous Darien jungle, a mother carries her daughter and looks ahead. There is no way back.
Another woman, sitting on the tracks waiting for a train to take her and her husband from Mexico to the United States, laughs openly. On your path to a better future, there is time for details.
The yellow flowers that her partner gave her brighten, even for a moment, her migratory journey.
Associated Press photographers have captured raw scenes during a violent and vibrant 2023 for Latin America, without forgetting that in stories of suffering there may also be room for hope.
In Haiti, criminal gangs expand and corner civilians in a chaotic and painful routine, like the image that shows a police officer carrying a man with a gunshot wound to the head on the back of a motorcycle.
Firearms also claimed the lives, according to autopsies, of at least 30 civilians of the fifty protesters who were murdered in Peru during the protests that followed the dismissal of Pedro Castillo and the inauguration of Dina Boluarte as president.
The coffins, surrounded by family and friends, appear in an image that frozen the harshness of the confrontations with the public force at the beginning of the year.
Another photograph taken from the air depicts, however, the efforts of a group of fisherwomen who, increasingly, are supporting their families in a Venezuela of economic hardship.
In Bolivia, indigenous women were also the protagonists, when a photographer accompanied those known as “climbing cholitas” among glaciers, a group of twenty mountain guides who fear losing their livelihood at the rate at which the thaw advances.
Fires, landslides, floods and other natural disasters also captured the attention of a year that once once more exposed the vulnerability of certain areas of the continent to the onslaught of nature.
Acapulco, the once brilliant Mexican tourist destination, is still in the process of recovering its infrastructure and the lives of its inhabitants following the scourge of powerful Hurricane Otis, a Category 5 storm that left 51 dead and a large number of images of debris. and luxurious yachts stacked in the port.
The pollution of Lake Maracaibo, in Venezuela, painted a pig green that sniffs in search of food on the shore of waters covered in verdigris.
And the political unrest was also remembered in images such as the one that came from the other side of a broken window of the presidential palace in Brazil, when a mob of protesters broke into the institutions to try to reverse Jair Bolsonaro’s defeat at the polls once morest the current president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
In the midst of so much turbulence in Latin America, many see migration as a way out, aware of the risky bet.
A baby sleeps peacefully inside a small suitcase, while his father begins the crossing of the Rio Grande to reach the United States.
A moment of calm before getting into the water.
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