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Oct. 17-23, 2025

Cubans rallied for Venezuela against U.S. aggression, Bolivia elected its first centrist president in 20 years and Pope Leo XIV canonized Venezuela’s “doctor of the poor” before tens of thousands of people.

This gallery was curated by AP photo editor Anita Baca in Mexico City.

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