Among the top images published in Latin America and the Caribbean last week was a look at Graciela Elizalde, a little girl in Mexico who suffers intense seizures. She has been able to sleep through the night since beginning to take marijuana extract, which a federal judge gave her parents permission to import.
Presidential elections were held in three nations. Argentine voters produced a closer than predicted finish, forcing a runoff for next month. Guatemalans, angry about government corruption scandals, decided a comedian should lead them for the next four years. Haitians chose among more than four dozen candidates in a first-round presidential ballot and are still waiting the results.
Brazil wrapped up the World Indigenous Games, a nine-day event billed as an indigenous Olympics. But competition was overshadowed by politics after a committee in the Brazilian congress approved a land demarcation measure that infuriated many indigenous Brazilians and produced protests at the event.
In Mexico, race car driver Lewis Hamilton got into the ring with Lucha Libre wrestler Mistico ahead of Sunday's Formula 1 race.
In other sports news, Kansas City Royals player Edinson Volquez buried his father in the Dominican Republic after pitching in Game 1 of the World Series in Kansas City. Volquez's father introduced him to the game when he was 10.
In Mexico, soldiers entered flooded coastal villages after Hurricane Patricia roared ashore as a Category 5 terror. Luckily, the most powerful hurricane on record in the Western Hemisphere caused limited destruction.
Followers of San Judas Tadeo gathered in Mexico City for the feast day of the patron of the hopeless and lost causes and the deliverer of the impossible.
A train car made to look like a bus moved along the tracks in Cuba, where rail travel offers a fine-grained, slow-moving view of the island that few foreigners ever see.
Brazilian cowboys celebrated "Ragamuffin" week, parading before crowds in southern Rio Grande do Sul state, which fancies itself as practically a separate nation with its rugged rural traditions and Germanic roots.
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This gallery was curated by photo editor Leslie Mazoch in Mexico City.