2023 images show disasters and human struggles in South America

Vivid portraits show people's ability to keep moving forward despite suffering

Published: December 11, 2023 11:50 Compiled by Nathaniel Lacsina, Senior Web Editor

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Fisherwomen and men pull in a net of fish off the coast of Chuao, Venezuela, June 7, 2023. Image Credit: AP

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Groom Isaac Medina, center, and bride Jazmin Gonzalez, watch an annular solar eclipse, better known as a ring of fire, before the start of their wedding ceremony, in Merida, Mexico, Oct. 14, 2023. Image Credit: AP

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Athletes compete in a soccer match during the Indigenous Games, in the Tapirema community of Peruibe, Brazil, April 22, 2023. Image Credit: AP

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Catia Lattouf poses for a photo with hummingbirds in her care at her apartment that she has turned into a makeshift clinic for the tiny birds, in Mexico City, Aug. 7, 2023. Image Credit: AP

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The Popocatepetl volcano spews ash and steam, as seen from Santiago Xalitzintla, Mexico, May 24, 2023. Image Credit: AP

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Docked yachts damaged by Hurricane Otis are scattered along the port in Acapulco, Mexico, Nov. 12, 2023. Image Credit: AP

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Aymara Indigenous guides known as "cholitas escaladoras”, Suibel Gonzales, left, and her mother Lidia Hauyllas, hike the Huayna Potosi mountain, on the outskirts of El Alto, Bolivia, Nov. 5, 2023. Image Credit: AP

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A soldier carries a dog rescued from the rubble of buildings destroyed by a deadly landslide that buried dozens of homes, in Alausi, Ecuador, March 27, 2023. Image Credit: AP

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Music fans attend the "Here we are" festival, in celebration of Women's History Month, in Montevideo, Uruguay, March 19, 2023. Image Credit: AP

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Police guard stand in a snowstorm guarding a supermarket, after reports that people tried to break into the store, in Bariloche, Argentina, Aug. 23, 2023. Image Credit: AP

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Indigenous leader Cacique Raoni and incoming President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stand side by side at the Planalto Palace after Lula's swearing-in ceremony, in Brasilia, Brazil, Jan. 1, 2023. Image Credit: AP

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People swim in the Renaico River under a smoked-filled sky caused by wildfires, in Renaico, Chile, Feb. 4, 2023. Image Credit: AP

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A tourist arrives in a classic American car for a show at the Tropicana performance hall in Havana, Cuba, Nov. 2, 2023. Image Credit: AP

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Caimans gather on the banks of the almost dried-up Bento Gomes River in the Pantanal wetlands near Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, Nov. 15, 2023. Image Credit: AP

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A contestant waits to be introduced while standing in the wings, during the Miss Cholita Pacena 2023 beauty pageant, in Valle de La Luna, on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia, June 23, 2023. Image Credit: AP

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Lithium processes in a pool of brine at the SQM mine under the sun in Chile's Atacama desert, April 18, 2023. Image Credit: AP

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