PHOTOS: The Week That Was In Latin America
October 3, 2013
In this Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 photo, a police officer is engulfed in flames after being hit by a Molotov cocktail thrown by protesters marking the anniversary of the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City. Thousands of teachers and students blocked Mexico City's main thoroughfares during rush hour to honor victims of the massacre while pledging to fight to undo an overhaul of the education system. A small group of self-described anarchists clashed with riot police, who used tear gas after the activists threw firebombs, bottles and rocks. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) ( The Week That Was in Latin America Photo Gallery )
In this Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013 photo, a Pataxo Indian wearing a wild cat pelt participates in the first day of the National Indigenous Mobilization in Brasilia, Brazil, where hundreds of people set up camp in front of Congress to oppose a constitutional change that would let lawmakers participate in the demarcation of territories. Indigenous people and their supporters say the proposal would allow agricultural interests to encroach on their lands. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) ( The Week That Was in Latin America Photo Gallery )
In this Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013 photo, students stand in line on the first day of classes at the National School of Republique des Etats-Unis d'Amerique in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Schools in Haiti opened their doors one month late, to allow parents more time to pay for their children's academic records from the previous year; a prerequisite to enroll in the current school year. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) ( The Week That Was in Latin America Photo Gallery )
In this Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013 photo, protestors kick at City Hall's iron gates during a teacher's strike in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Teachers opposed to the mayor's proposal to increase teacher's salaries tried to disrupt the proceedings at City Hall. The strikers say the proposal doesn't go far enough to address their demands. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo) ( The Week That Was in Latin America Photo Gallery )
In this Monday, Sept. 30, 2013 photo, people help a street vendor who passed out from tear gas exposure, fired by police breaking up a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Riot police broke up the end of an anti-government demonstration by people marking the anniversary of the 1991 ouster of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) ( The Week That Was in Latin America Photo Gallery )
In this Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 photo, Congress is illuminated in pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month in Brasilia, Brazil. The shadow on the building is from a soldier patrolling outside the lower house. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) ( The Week That Was in Latin America Photo Gallery )
In this Friday, Sept. 27, 2013 photo, Wevellyn Antunes Rocha, from left to right, Maria Deusaunira Borges, Uyara Borges, Nayara Borges (back), Daniella Klipe, Gisele Candido, and Ary Borges gather at the breakfast table with tiger Tom, in Maringa, Brazil. Ary Borges, who cares for Tom, eight other tigers and two lionesses, is in a legal battle with federal wildlife officials to keep his endangered animals from undergoing vasectomies and being taken away from him. (AP Photo/Renata Brito) ( The Week That Was in Latin America Photo Gallery )
In this Monday, Sept. 30, 2013 photo, farmers wait for customers next to their 1950's Chevrolet loaded with garlic at the 114th Street Market on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba. The market's bustle is a result of economic reforms begun in 2010 by President Raul Castro, which includes relaxing rules on private farming. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) ( The Week That Was in Latin America Photo Gallery )
In this Sept. 23, 2013 photo, six-year-old twin sisters Asley and Aslen Velazquez prepare for school in Havana, Cuba. Their mother Tamara Velazquez said she never expected to have twins from her first pregnancy and did not take fertility treatments. "It's a lot of work. It requires a lot of patience," Velazquez said. "They are very active and dominant, although each has a different character." (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) ( The Week That Was in Latin America Photo Gallery )
In this Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013 photo, clothes hang out to dry in the Amazonian village, Comunidad del Milenio, in Playas de Cuyabeno, Ecuador. The government inaugurated the village on Tuesday, built from the ground up, with infrastructure that includes homes, schools, a library, a clinic and a police force. The Sionas and Secoyas indigenous communities, who already lived in the area, moved into the new hamlet. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa) ( The Week That Was in Latin America Photo Gallery )
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