AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Olympian athlete Neisi Dajomes Barrera, who won the gold in women's weightlifting 76kg at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, waves from the cockpit of a plane as she arrives to Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. Dajomes Barrera is the first woman from Ecuador to win a gold medal at an Olympics.

A crew member checks docking ropes from the inside of Carnival's Mardi Gras cruise ship, docked in the bay of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, marking the first time a cruise ship visits the U.S. territory since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

Birds fly over a man taking photos of the exposed riverbed of the Old Parana River, a tributary of the Parana River during a drought in Rosario, Argentina, Thursday, July 29, 2021.

Tzotzil Indigenous people who had been displaced as a result of the recent violence between a self-defense group called the "El Machete" and alleged criminal gangs, attend a Mass on their return home, the result of talks between government authorities and the vigilantes, in Pantelho, Chiapas state, Mexico, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. The vigilante group had burned homes, vehicles and abducted residents they accused of being criminals, causing many to flee the area.

An alien-shaped kite flies overhead at the Astronomy Festival in Villa de Leyva, Colombia, Saturday, July 31, 2021. Professional and amateur astronomers from Colombia and the world celebrate the 60th anniversary of the arrival of the first man in outer space, with Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut and pilot who managed, on April 12, 1961, to complete an orbit from Earth in its Vostok 1 capsule, an event considered a milestone in the world's space race.

A line of people snakes around a field to enter a COVID-19 vaccination site, as people over age 30 became eligible for a vaccine in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021.

Esmeralda Millan, who survived an acid attack by her ex-partner three years ago when she was 23, poses for a portrait at her grandmother's home in the state of Puebla, Mexico, Tuesday, June 22, 2021. Millan's attacker was arrested and jailed on charges of attempted femicide the same year of the attack, which has forced her to have 43 operations to regain some mobility, and awaits another on her eye.

Manuel Dommar, 89, washes his feet as he sits on his bed in a dorm room at La Providencia San Antonio, a home for the elderly, amid the new coronavirus pandemic, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. Dommar does not have any living relatives to visit him at the home so he is allowed to go out when the pandemic lockdowns are relaxed every other week.

A pregnant woman waits to get a shot of the Cuban Abdala vaccine for COVID-19 at a clinic during the new coronavirus pandemic in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021.

Friar Leopoldo Serrano celebrates Mass, broadcast via Facebook, at a chapel in Mission San Francisco de Asis, Honduras, late Saturday, June 19, 2021. Located on the border of the departments of Santa Barbara and Copan, his sprawling mission straddles the road that is one of the region's main drug trafficking corridors.

People burn offerings in honor of "Pachamama," or Mother Earth, on La Cumbre, a mountain considered sacred where a statue of Jesus Christ stands on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021. According to the Aymara tradition, the Pachamama awakens hungry and thirsty every August after the dry season, and to satiate her devotees toss offerings including fruit, coca, sweets and dead llama fetuses into a bonfire.