PHOTOS: The Week That Was In Latin America
September 26, 2013
In thus Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013, a vendor reaches out to catch a pineapple at a food market where he purchases the fruit to then resell on the streets, on the outskirts in Havana, Cuba. Cuban authorities on Thursday announced 18 new categories of independent employment that will be permitted under President Raul Castro's economic reforms, and also restrictions intended to regulate other private entrepreneurs already in business. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) ( The Week That Was in Latin America Photo Gallery )
In this Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013 photo, a soldier takes a break during the search for bodies in La Pintada, Mexico, where a landslide swept through the village center. La Pintada was the scene of the single greatest tragedy in destruction wreaked by the twin storms, Manuel and Ingrid, which simultaneously pounded both of Mexico's coasts a week ago, spawning huge floods and landslides across a third of the country. The death toll stands at 101, not counting five federal police who died on a rescue mission and the 68 missing from La Pintada. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) ( The Week That Was in Latin America Photo Gallery )
In this Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013 photo, Chiquinho of Brazil's Ponte Preta, right, fights for a ball with Juan Sebastian Villota of Colombia's Deportivo Pasto, at a Copa Sudamericana soccer match in Campinas, Brazil. Ponte Preta defeated Deportivo Pasto 2-0 in the first leg of the knockout stages of the Copa Sudamericana. (AP Photo/Andre Penner) ( The Week That Was in Latin America Photo Gallery )
In this Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013 photo, Bruce Springsteen performs on the last night of the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. More than an estimated 80 thousand people a day attended the week-long festival, that featured over 120 bands and artists. Conceived by the entrepreneur Roberto Medina, the first Rock in Rio took place in the Rio de Janeiro in 1985. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) ( The Week That Was in Latin America Photo Gallery )
In this Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013 photo, the body of a landslide victim, lies on two wooden slats atop a wheelbarrow in La Pintada, Mexico, where a landslide swept through the village center. Fourteen hours per body is how long rescue crews with shovels, hydraulic equipment, were averaging to recover victims of a massive landslide that took half the remote coffee-growing village of La Pintada, leaving 68 people missing. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) ( The Week That Was in Latin America Photo Gallery )
In this Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013, Nicaraguan girls dance with army cadets during a "quinceanera" party in Managua, Nicaragua. Nicaraguaís Association of Mothers and Fathers of Children with Cancer and Leukemia put on for the fifith year, a the traditional coming out party for the girls from poor, rural families, teens who have the added burden of dealing with cancer. This yearís party feted 37 girls between ages 14 and 16. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) ( The Week That Was in Latin America Photo Gallery )
In this Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013 photo, a young music fan cheers as he watches the Brazilian rock/reggae band Skank perform during the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The festival's opening main attraction was Beyonce and Bruce Springsteen closed the week-long event that featured more than 120 bands and artists. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) ( The Week That Was in Latin America Photo Gallery )
In this Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013 photo, miners rest inside the tunnel of La Flauta coal mine in Tausa, Colombia. Residents of this remote village in central Colombia pray every day that authorities don't close the small coal mines that have sustained them for as long as anyone can remember. They worry that La Flauta will be closed if authorities declare the area a nature reserve in which mining is prohibited. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) ( The Week That Was in Latin America Photo Gallery )
In this Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013 photo, Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff waits to be introduced to address the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York. Rousseff accused the U.S. of violating Brazil's sovereignty with what she called a "grave violation of human rights and of civil liberties" regarding the U.S. National Security Agency surveillance program that has swept up data from telephone calls and emails that have passed through Brazil, including her own. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ( The Week That Was in Latin America Photo Gallery )
In this Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013 photo, released by the community news blog, Voz de Areia Branca, a tractor is used to remove a dolphin carcass from Upanema beach in Areia Branca, Brazil. Around 30 large dolphins beached themselves in northeastern Brazil over the weekend, and news reports said Monday that at least seven of them had died. The dolphins, known as false killer whales, ran aground early Sunday on the shallow sands of Upanema beach. (AP Photo/Voz de Areia Branca, Carlos Junior) ( The Week That Was in Latin America Photo Gallery )
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