From unrest in Venezuela to May Day celebrations in Cuba: The most stunning pictures of last week from Latin America

SUMMARY

This photo gallery highlights some of the top news images made by Associated Press photographers in Latin America that were published in the past week.

By APMay 6, 2019 8:33:27 AM IST (Updated)

An anti-government protester walks near a bus that was set on fire by opponents of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro during clashes between rebel and loyalist soldiers in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó took to the streets with a small contingent of heavily armed troops early Tuesday in a bold and risky call for the military to rise up and oust Maduro. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Supporters of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro carry a portrait of him during a rally in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Boris Vergara)

An anti-government protester sits by ammunition being used by rebel troops rising up against the government of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro as they all take cover on an overpass outside La Carlota military airbase where the rebel soldiers confront loyal troops inside the base in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó and jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez took to the streets with a small contingent of heavily armed troops early Tuesday in a bold and risky call for the military to rise up and oust Maduro. (AP Photo/Boris Vergara)

Major Edney Freire salutes the flag during a ceremony in the main courtyard of the Ceilandia state school No. 7 in Brasilia, Brazil. The administration of President Jair Bolsonaro, a former army captain, is pushing to expand schools that are co-run by armed police to improve behaviour and academic results. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Waoranis and leader Nemonte Nenquimo leave a courthouse after a judged ruled in their favour in a lawsuit filed against the Ministry of Non-Renewable Natural Resources for opening up oil concessions on their ancestral land, in Puyo, Ecuador. The Amazon tribe has won an early court victory in its fight to stop oil extraction in its ancestral territory. A judge in a provincial court determined Friday that the Waorani people have a right to be consulted before any oil drilling takes place. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Cuban soldiers carry depictions of President Donald Trump during the annual May Day parade held at Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba. Trump claimed via Twitter that if Cuban troops and militia do not cease their operations in support of Venezuela immediately, Cuba would suffer "a full and complete embargo" as well as "highest-level sanctions." (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A protester dressed as Spiderman exercises civil disobedience when crossing the perimeter established by the police during a protest against the Federal Fiscal Control Board, as part of the May Day celebration, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The US Congress established the appointed Fiscal Control Board to oversee the debt restructuring in order to combat the Puerto Rican government-debt crisis. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Security agents block a door at an immigration station as migrants ask for a ticket to register their entry into Mexico in Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico. Thousands fleeing conflict or poverty in Nigeria, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Haiti and Cuba have travelled across oceans, through the jungles and mountains of South America, up through Central America, on a route that, so far, ends here: the steamy, crumbling Mexican city of Tapachula, near the Guatemala border. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Model Tales Soares lies on the catwalk as a paramedic tends to him after he collapsed during Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A statement from organizers said that Soares died after taking ill while participating in the Sao Paulo's Fashion Week. (Leco Viana/Thenews2 via AP)

Spectators watch driver Alberto Heller from Chile and his co-driver Jose Diaz from Argentina race their Ford Fiesta R5 on the last day of the fifth round of the FIA World Rally Championship in El Condor, Cordoba, Argentina. (AP Photo/Nicolas Aguilera)

A cargo ship transits the Panama Canal in its way to the Atlantic Ocean, while tree trunks that used to be submerged are exposed due to the low water levels of Gatún lake, Panama. An intense drought related to this year's El Nino phenomenon has precipitously lowered the level of Panama's Gatún Lake, forcing the country's Canal Authority to impose draft limits this week on ships moving through the waterway's recently expanded locks. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

Monterrey players and staff celebrate after becoming CONCACAF Champions after defeating Tigres in a final soccer match in Monterrey, Mexico. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)