Most stunning pictures of the last week from Latin America and Caribbean

SUMMARY

This photo gallery highlights some of the top images captured in Latin America last week.

By APAug 10, 2019 3:57:55 PM IST (Published)

A mariachi musician holds onto a dove to be released at a burial service in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico for elementary school principal Elsa Mendoza, who was killed in the mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso. Mexican officials said eight of the victims in El Paso were Mexican nationals, and have called the shooting an act of terrorism against their citizens on US soil. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

A woman sits next to a sign with a message that reads: ¨No More Guns! Make Love¨, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico where people gathered for a vigil for Mexican nationals who were killed in an El Paso shopping-complex shooting. Twenty people were killed and more than two dozen injured in a shooting Saturday in a busy shopping area in the Texas border town of El Paso, the state's governor said. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

Alberto Fernandez, right, and Cristina Fernandez, former president and first lady, campaign to be the presidential ticket for the "Frente de Todos" party ahead of primary elections in Rosario, Argentina. Argentina will hold primary elections on Sunday ahead of October's presidential elections. (AP Photo/Patricio Murphy)

Rev. Nicola Corradi is escorted from the courtroom after attending the first day of his trial for alleged crimes against deaf minors in Mendoza, Argentina. The alleged abuse took place between 2004 and 2016, and the case gained world attention when it emerged that Corradi had faced similar accusations at the Antonio Próvolo institute in Verona, Italy, and Pope Francis had been notified the Italian priest was running a similar centre in Argentina. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Oriana Vinas of Colombia competes in the ball during the women's rhythmic gymnastics apparatus final at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Colombia's Mauricio Bermudez lands in the water after being thrown when his horse Fernhill Nightshift tripped while crossing a jump, in the cross country discipline of equestrian eventing at the Pan American Games in Lima. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Anne-Elizabeth Stone of the US screams in celebration as she wins the gold medal in her women's sabre individual fencing final bout against Argentina's Maria Perez at the Pan American Games. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Federico Bruno of Argentina lies on the track after finishing the men's 5000m during athletics at the Pan American Games in Lima. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A youth looks at the candlelit photo of people killed during Brazil's dictatorship outside a police station that used to be a torture centre used by the dictatorship, as people protest President Jair Bolsonaro's removal of members of a commission investigating disappearances and murders that took place during Brazil's 1964-1985 dictatorship in Sao Paulo. Bolsonaro has also faced intense criticism, including from allies, this week after he questioned the circumstances in which Fernando Santa Cruz, a leftist activist during the 1964-1985 military regime and father of the current president of the Brazilian Bar Association, was slain. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)