Inger Andersen, the executive director of the United Nations Environment Program, and Colombian Environment Minister Susana Muhamad attend a press conference at the U.N. Biodiversity Conference, or COP16, in Cali, Colombia, on Oct. 25. Muhamad serves as the president of COP16.
Employees of a shipyard walk over a makeshift bridge to cross the Tarumã Açu River, a tributary of the Rio Negro, which is at a very low level due to a severe drought, in Manaus, Brazil, on Sept. 25.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum raises the ceremonial staff she received from Indigenous peoples during her inauguration ceremony, at Zócalo Square in Mexico City on Oct. 1.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks during the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 24.
Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa takes part in a ceremony to deliver rifles to the National Police at the Community Surveillance Unit in Duran, Ecuador, on Aug. 6.
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness (center) and Finance Minister Nigel Clarke (far left) attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Sandals Dunn’s River resort in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, on May 19, 2023.
Then-Haitian President Michel Martelly greets supporters as he departs parliament after delivering his farewell speech in Port-au-Prince on Feb. 7, 2016.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado and opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González wave alleged voting records during a rally in front of the United Nations headquarters in Caracas on July 30.
Bolivian President Luis Arce (fourth from left) and the president of state-run oil company Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos, Armin Dorgathen Tapia (fourth from right), gesture for a picture during a visit to the company’s’s Mayaya Centro-X1 natural gas field in Alto Beni, Bolivia, on July 23.
