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FILE - People celebrate as fireworks light up the sky over Copacabana Beach during New Year's celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado, File)
FILE - People celebrate as fireworks light up the sky over Copacabana Beach during New Year's celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado, File)
FILE - A Guatemalan deported from the U.S. waits to leave a processing center after returning with other migrants on a repatriation flight to La Aurora airport in Guatemala City, Dec. 30, 2025. The man, who did not want to give his name, said he was detained while on his way to work at a construction site in Georgia. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)
FILE - A Guatemalan deported from the U.S. waits to leave a processing center after returning with other migrants on a repatriation flight to La Aurora airport in Guatemala City, Dec. 30, 2025. The man, who did not want to give his name, said he was detained while on his way to work at a construction site in Georgia. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)
FILE - Shamans perform an annual ritual to predict political and social issues for the new year in Lima, Peru, Dec. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo, File)
FILE - Shamans perform an annual ritual to predict political and social issues for the new year in Lima, Peru, Dec. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo, File)
FILE - Cinthia Falcón, a neighbor dressed as Santa Claus, delivers gifts donated by NGOs during a celebration organized by a neighborhood soup kitchen in Lomas de Zamora, a suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
FILE - Cinthia Falcón, a neighbor dressed as Santa Claus, delivers gifts donated by NGOs during a celebration organized by a neighborhood soup kitchen in Lomas de Zamora, a suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
FILE - A vendor sells New Year's eve party goods at a market in downtown Lima, Peru, Dec. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo, File)
FILE - A vendor sells New Year's eve party goods at a market in downtown Lima, Peru, Dec. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo, File)
FILE - Marco Calo, left, a geophysicist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), takes a break on the slopes of the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico, Dec. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)
FILE - Marco Calo, left, a geophysicist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), takes a break on the slopes of the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico, Dec. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)
FILE - Jose Saavedra proposes to his girlfriend Mariele Munoz at the Valle Arriba viewpoint in Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
FILE - Jose Saavedra proposes to his girlfriend Mariele Munoz at the Valle Arriba viewpoint in Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
FILE - A devotee dances during a ceremony honoring Yemanja, the sea goddess of the Yoruba religion, on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado, File)
FILE - A devotee dances during a ceremony honoring Yemanja, the sea goddess of the Yoruba religion, on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado, File)
FILE - Revelers take part in the Afro-Venezuelan Holy Innocents' Day celebration in Caucagua, Venezuela, Dec. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
FILE - Revelers take part in the Afro-Venezuelan Holy Innocents' Day celebration in Caucagua, Venezuela, Dec. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
FILE - People spend time on the beach in Carilo, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, Dec. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
FILE - People spend time on the beach in Carilo, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, Dec. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
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9:02 AM on Friday, January 2

By The Associated Press

Dec. 26 – Jan. 2, 2025

People across Latin America rang in the new year, during a week when Guatemalan migrants were deported back home and scientists in Mexico studied the Popocatepetl volcano.

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This gallery was curated by photo editor Jon Orbach, based in Mexico City.

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