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In this Feb. 26 2015 photo, a protester injured in a scuffle with police shouts out his name as he and a woman are detained in Mexico City. The pair, and other protesters who had taken part in a march marking the fifth month of the disappearance of 43 students from a rural teachers college, clashed with police after they were prevented from entering the subway. The man shouts his name out of fear that he will disappear once in custody. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)![Mexico_Protest_Vros__3_]()
A demonstrator wears a mask designed with a crown of crosses and the name "Ayotzinapa" forming part of the mouth, on behalf of the 43 missing students of a rural teachers college from Ayotzinapa, during a march marking the fifth month since their disappearance, in Mexico City, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. In late January the Mexican attorney general said that investigators were certain that the 43 college students were killed and incinerated after they were seized by police in southern Guerrero state. Relatives refuse to accept the government's version of what happened to their sons. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)![The_Week_That_Was_Lat_Vros__7_]()
In this Feb. 26, 2015 photo, Maria Sharapova of Russia returns the ball to Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia during a Mexican Tennis Open quarterfinal match in Acapulco, Mexico. Top-seeded Sharapova beat Rybarikova to reach the Mexico Open semifinals. (AP Photo/Christian Palma)![Mexico_Protest_Vros__2_]()
A demonstrator wearing representations of Mexico's national flag stained with red paint symbolizing blood, takes part in a march marking the fifth month since the disappearance of 43 students from a rural teachers college, in Mexico City, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. In late January the Mexican attorney general said that investigators were certain that the 43 college students were killed and incinerated after they were seized by police in southern Guerrero state. Relatives refuse to accept the government's version of what happened to their sons. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)![bombonera]()
In this Feb. 26, 2015 photo, Daniel Osvaldo of Argentina's Boca Juniors celebrates after scoring against Uruguay's Wanderers at a Copa Libertadores soccer match in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)![la_tuta_mexico]()
In this Feb. 27, 2015 photo, Servando "La Tuta" Gomez," leader of the Knights Templar cartel, looks out the window of a federal police helicopter at the Attorney General's Office hangar in Mexico City. Gomez, a former school teacher who became one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords as head of the Knights Templar cartel, was captured early Friday by federal police, according to Mexican officials. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)![Mexico_Protest_Vros]()
A protester holds a handwritten sign that reads in Spanish; "And the 43?" The government we deserve," in reference to the 43 missing students from a rural teachers college, during a march marking the fifth month since their disappearance, in Mexico City, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. In late January the Mexican attorney general said that investigators were certain that the 43 college students were killed and incinerated after they were seized by police in southern Guerrero state. Relatives refuse to accept the government's version of what happened to their sons. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)![Argentina_Tennis_Open_Vros]()
Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates winning the final tennis match at the ATP Argentina Open against Juan Monaco of Argentina in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, March 1, 2015. Nadal won 6-4, 6-1. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)![The_Week_That_Was_Lat_Vros__12_]()
Uruguay's former President Jose Mujica and wife Lucia Topolansky greet supporters after the swearing-in ceremony for Uruguay's new President Tabare Vazquez at Independence Plaza in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sunday, March 1, 2015. Mujica, who still lives on a flower farm with his wife, rarely dons a tie and drives an old VW Beetle, has led Uruguay through stable economic growth and better wages. His social agenda has included laws approving gay marriage and the creation of the world's first national marketplace for legal marijuana. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)![The_Week_That_Was_Lat_Vros__8_]()
In this Feb. 26, 2015 photo, an employee's watch sits next to a stack of cigars at the Corona cigar factory in Havana, Cuba. Cuban cigar makers are licking their chops over new U.S. rules that let more Americans travel to the island and legally bring back as much as $100 worth in prized stogies for the first time in decades. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)![The_Week_That_Was_Lat_Vros__4_]()
In this Jan. 28, 2105 photo, elderly Aymara indigenous women run laps during a training session before playing handball in El Alto, Bolivia. Dozens of traditional Aymara grandmothers ease many of the aches and pains of aging by practicing a sport that is decidedly untraditional in Bolivia: team handball. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)![Fernandez_de_Kirchner_4_hour_speech]()
Soldiers of the Granaderos de San Martin regiment stand guard below a giant portrait of Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez hanging outside Congress during the inauguration of the 2015 legislative year in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, March 1, 2015. In her speech to Congress, Fernandez said prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who had accused her of a criminal cover-up, had also praised her. Nisman was found dead Jan. 18, hours before he was to meet legislators to elaborate on his allegations. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)![The_Week_That_Was_Lat_Vros__3_]()
In this Feb. 25, 2015 photo, Eliseth Cocon, wearing a scarf decorated with a portrait of former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo that reads in Spanish: "Welcome Portillo, we trust in you," poses for a portrait as she waits for Portillo to land at the La Aurora airport in Guatemala City. Portillo, who was sentenced to nearly six years in prison for accepting $2.5 million in bribes from Taiwan, was released Wednesday from a U.S. prison and is returning to his home country. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)Best Latin American pix of the week
It was a turbulent week in Latin America, with protests, disgraced current and former presidents and captured drug lords.
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