HAVANA – (AP) In a tough week for the Latin America and the Caribbean photo department, AP photojournalist Franklin Reyes Marrero died in a car accident while returning from an assignment west of Havana.
“He was an integral part of AP’s team in Cuba. His passion and professionalism were exemplary and his energy, talent and good company will be deeply missed,” said AP Director of Photography Santiago Lyon. Franklin is survived by his wife, parents and brother.
In Mexico, in the wake of day of the dead celebrations, the tragedy of the 43 missing students continued as the country’s attorney general declared the students dead, detailing a terrible story in which suspects have confessed to loading the youths onto dump trucks, murdering them at a landfill, then burning the bodies and dumping the ashen remains into a river.
In Bolivia, a human skull, or “natita”, was crowned with flowers and surrounded by offerings of coca leaves, flower petals and cigarettes, during the Natitas Festival. The Art Tattoo Bolivia 2014 brought together tattoo artists from across the Americas.
Street gangs in El Salvador are targeting young women with extreme violence.
In Brazil, the Sao Paulo fashion week’s fall-winter show was in full swing, a five-day-long extravaganza that has emerged as Latin America’s premier fashion event.
In Guayaquil, Ecuador, local favourites Emelec were pushed out of the Copa Sudamericana and the fans took it out on rival Brazil’s Sao Paulo players.
