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Latin America

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  • Locals greet each other in the hallowed seats of Bar Britanico in Buenos Aires' storied San Telmo neighborhood. Frequented by British war veterans and railroad workers in the mid-20th century, the bar took on the name of its patrons. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Birds fly from the façade of the church at the verdant ruins of the mission at San Ignacio Mini, Argentina. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Dancers perform polished tangos at Bar Sur, a venerable club in the Buenos Aires historic district of San Telmo.
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  • Celebrants toast departed loved ones with a pitcher of a home-brewed alcohol at the Las Lomas cemetery above La Paz, Bolivia for the Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead
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  • Locals shop at the country market in Vallegrande, Bolivia Saturday, Nov. 13, 2004. Ernesto "Che" Guevara was captured by the Bolivian army in 1967 in a nearby valley and executed in La Higuera days later. His body was put on public display in the laundry room of the Vallegrande hospital, then secretly buried under the air strip for 30 years. Guevara and fellow communist guerillas were attempting to launch a continent-wide revolution modeled on Guevara's success in Cuba in the late 1950s. The Bolivian government recently began promoting the area where he fought, was captured, killed and burried for 30 years as the "Ruta del Che," or Che's Route. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • A boy walks below artfully painted walls in the village of Pucara (acute accent on final a), Bolivia. Ernesto "Che" Guevara was captured by the Bolivian army in 1967 in a nearby valley and executed in nearby La Higuera days later. Guevara and fellow communist guerillas were attempting to launch a continent-wide revolution modeled on Guevara's success in Cuba in the late 1950s. The Bolivian government recently began promoting the area where he fought, was captured, killed and burried for 30 years as the "Ruta del Che," or Che's Route. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Campesinos butcher steers in a communal slaughterhouse in Los Negros, Bolivia Friday, Nov. 12, 2004. Ernesto "Che" Guevara was captured by the Bolivian army in 1967 in a nearby valley and executed in La Higuera days later. His body was put on public display in the laundry room of the Vallegrande hospital, then secretly buried under the air strip for 30 years. Guevara and fellow communist guerillas were attempting to launch a continent-wide revolution modeled on Guevara's success in Cuba in the late 1950s. The Bolivian government recently began promoting the area where he fought, was captured, killed and burried for 30 years as the "Ruta del Che," or Che's Route. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • A European tourist expresses her opinion of one of the Banda de Ipanema's infamous parading transvestites. For more than 30 years the venerable carnival street block has paraded through the streets of the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood made famous by Ant?nio Carlos Jobim.
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  • Before one of three parades formed by the Banda de Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro, a transvestite echoes Cruella de Ville for curious onlookers.
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  • Muscians perform traditional sambas at Casa da Mãe Joana, a Rio nightclub noted for music.
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  • A porta bandeira, or flag bearer, of Rio's Acadêmicos do Salgueiro samba school spins and twists her way through the crowds dancing to the group's chosen theme samba for the year.
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  • Cuban elementary students line up in martial form after a field trip through the city.
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  • Buyers and sellers browse garlic and other wares brought in by truck to a morning produce market in Old Havana.
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  • The Cuernos del Paine, or Paine Horns, peak from the mist at Torres del Paine National Park in southern Chile. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Painted images of Ernesto "Che" Guevara stare from a pock-marked wall in La Higuera, Bolivia, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2004. Guevara was captured by the Bolivian army in 1967 in a nearby valley and executed in La Higuera days later. Guevara and fellow communist guerillas were attempting to launch a continent-wide revolution modeled on Guevara's success in Cuba in the late 1950s. The Bolivian government recently began promoting the area where he fought, was captured, killed and burried for 30 years as the "Ruta del Che," or Che's Route. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • A young angel awaits her turn to parade through the streets with hundreds of citizens dressed as biblical figures during one of Holy Week's many processions in Ouro Prêto.
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  • School boys in the Amazon port city of Manaus leap from fishing boats into the Rio Negro below a central city market. The Rio Negro enters the Rio Solimões at Manaus to form the Brazilian Amazon.
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  • Dancers spin to forró music at the Sala de Reboco dance hall in Recife, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Honduran children displaced by Hurricane Mitch in 1998 play a game of hopscotch in the dirt alley of a settlement of temporary shelters in Tegucigalpa. The storm devastated the country leaving tens of thousands homeless.
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  • Amazon river fishermen sell their waress at the Panair docks in Manaus, Brazil, Monday, January 9, 2006. Fishmongers from the city's public markets arrive in the wee hours of the morning to buy their stocks for the day directly from the boats. The Amazon river system boasts more different species of fish than the Atlantic Ocean, but as population increases, so does the pressure on fish stocks in the vast river. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • A bride poses for pre-nuptual photos near the Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição, or Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, in Ouro Prêto, Brazil. Ouro Prêto boasts 19 churches from the Baroque and Rococco schools. Brazil's interior state of Minas Gerais, once a colonial mining capitol for the Portuguese crown, has changed little in appearance since the 18th century. With the help of laws to preserve its baroque architecture, the state's sky is scraped at every turn by 250-year-old church steeples, and lined with cobblestones. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Workers cobble a street in the former mission town of Santa Maria de Fé (acute accent on the e in Fe), Paraguay in jobs that pay two dollars a day. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. Ruins of some of these missions still haunt hilltops in the region. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Josefina Barbero, 8, leaps from the pinky finger of a giant sculpture of a hand protruding from the sand of the playa brava beach in Punta del Este, Uruguay. The venerable South American beach resort is having a rennaisance. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)
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  • Following the afternoon joust, Tatumbla's debutantes prepare for the crowning of the Queen of the Flowers for the year, in Tatubla, Honduras.
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  • One of many young favelados who take part in the drug trade found in most Rio slums walks with an automatic rifle behind a practicing carnaval drum corps. The cocaine trade attracts many young men in the slums for the quick money it can produce.
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  • Wearing huge feather wings, three young angels preside over theatrical reenactments of the Last Supper and Passion of Jesus staged annually by several of the town's churches. Itself an historical landmark, the town of 60,000 boasts 13 huge 18th-century churches
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  • A boy waits as fishermen bring in the morning catch in the colonial village of Adícora on Venezuela's Paraguaná Peninsula, Dec. 12, 2015. The remote desert peninsula in the Caribbean Sea lays bare the effects of Venezuela's politicized economy after 17 years under Hugo Chavez and successor Nicolas Maduro.
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  • Fishermen and fishmongers await the morning catch in the colonial village of Adícora on Venezuela's Paraguaná Peninsula, Dec. 12, 2015. The remote desert peninsula in the Caribbean Sea lays bare the effects of Venezuela's politicized economy after 17 years under Hugo Chavez and successor Nicolas Maduro.
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  • Neighbors greet on the street in Pueblo Nuevo on Venezuela's Paraguaná Peninsula, Dec. 12, 2015. The remote desert peninsula in the Caribbean Sea lays bare the effects of Venezuela's politicized economy after 17 years under Hugo Chavez and successor Nicolas Maduro.
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  • Representatives from area Indian communities perfrom in the Bani, a theatrical representation of the history of the local Guelaguetza festival in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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  • A girl praticing with a troupe for the local Guelaguetza dance festival looks over her skirt before taking to the floor of the town plaza to dance.
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  • Members of a young dance troupe take to the town plaza to practice for the local Guelaguetza dance festival in Cuilapán, Mexico.
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  • A matador spreads his cape at his feet while a ring attendant scrambles to release a bull at a small bullfight in Ollantaytambo, Perú. Spectators lined the walls of the small ring and watched as their neighbors' bulls — and cows and calves — playfully battled local matadors.
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  • A clown is grazed by the horns of a local steer during an amateur bullfight in Ollantaytambo, Perú. The animals, all valuable property of the residents, were spared the sword.
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  • A young girl in traditional Indian dress dances through Cuzco's Plaza de las Armas as her brother hangs onto the family dog at rear. The kids were put on display for their mother to attract alms from passers-by.
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  • Family trip to Puerto Rico with friend Arden Delong, July, 2019.
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