Top photos from Latin America and the Caribbean

June - Chileans got dressed up for a Gay Pride parade cricket players from Australia and West Indies faced off on the Caribbean island of Barbados and Indigenous people in Bolivia and Ecuador marked the Southern Hemisphere s winter solstice Colombians who pick up trash to sell as recycled material blanketed Bogota s main plaza with plastic bottles to protest decreasing income and tougher conditions for scavengers and Venezuelans carried Iranian flags at a demonstration organized by the regime against Israel s war on Iran Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco was revealed guilty of sexual abuse and received a -year suspended sentence This gallery highlights certain of the most of compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Latin America and the Caribbean The selection was curated by AP photo editor Leslie Mazoch based in Mexico City Follow AP visual journalism AP Images blog http apimagesblog com Instagram https www instagram com apnews Source