Photos by Rodrigo Abd After three days of heavy snowfall and bone-chilling temperatures, Mateo Mullisaca watches as one of his alpacas falls to the ground in agony on his farm almost 16,400 feet (5,000 meters) high in Peru’s Andes.
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Colombia’s Coca Paste
Photos by Rodrigo Abd In bright green Andean mountains wrapped in clouds, a country family produces the coca paste that is used to make cocaine at a humble home in territory controlled by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or the FARC.
Tourism in Peru’s Shanty Town
Photos by Rodrigo Abd Shacks cling precariously to sandy hillsides. The flat roofs of board-and-tin hovels stretch as far as the eye can see on treeless moonscapes.
Pictures of the Week
Highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
Peru Snow Star Festival
Photos and Text by Rodrigo Abd Tens of thousands of pilgrims crowd an Andean valley, with dancers in multi-layered skirts and musicians with drums and flutes performing non-stop over three days.
Pictures of the Week
Highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
Fragments of Shattered Lives After Ecuador Quake
Photographs by Rodrigo Abd and Dolores Ochoa The dreams, plans and even the lives of hundreds of families were shattered in one moment — 6:58 p.m. on April 16 — when a magnitude 7.8 earthquake rocked the central coast of Ecuador.
Pictures of the Week
Highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
Post-Quake Jolt Hits Ecuador
A fresh tremor rattled Ecuador before dawn Wednesday, a magnitude-6.1 magnitude jolt that set babies crying and adults pouring into the streets, fearful of yet more damage following a monster earthquake over the weekend.
In Peru Highlands, Support for Fujimori’s Daughter Runs Deep
Photos by Rodrigo Abd This remote hamlet high in the Peruvian Andes is nearly drained of color, save for the bright orange campaign signs plastered on walls and houses promoting presidential hopeful Keiko Fujimori.
Pictures of the Week
Highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
Raids on Illegal Mining Camps Target Brothels
Photos by Rodrigo Abd In one of the biggest such raids yet, police and soldiers destroyed scores of illegal gold mining camps in Peru’s Madre de Dios region this week.
Deep in Colombian Jungle, Peace Looms at Rebel Hideout
Photos by Rodrigo Abd The rebel leader known as Juan Pablo carries with him a new telescopic assault rifle and a heavy heart.
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Peru’s Ashaninka Hunger
Photos by Rodrigo Abd Hunger haunts the jungle home of the Ashaninka.
Peru’s Dirty War
Photos by Rodrigo Abd More than two decades after they were massacred by Maoist-inspired insurgents during Peru’s bloody civil conflict, 34 Andean villagers were finally given a proper burial.
Peru’s Coca Eradicators
Photos by Rodrigo Abd Destroying coca plants is grueling work.
Daily Life Around The World
AP’s Daily Life series is a visual exploration of imagery from around the globe.
Peru’s Cocaine Runways
Photos by Rodrigo Abd It happens about four times a day, right under the nose of Peru’s military: A small single-engine plane drops onto a dirt airstrip in the world’s No. 1 coca-growing valley, delivers a bundle of cash, picks up more than 300 kilos of cocaine and flies to Bolivia.
Pope Francis: Transforming the Catholic Church
For 14 years, AP correspondent Nicole Winfield has covered the Vatican, a firsthand witness to papal practices, seeing a side of Francis that few have glimpsed over his travels to South America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
Daily Life Around the World
AP’s Daily Life series is a visual exploration of imagery from around the globe.
Peru’s Jungle Drug Cops
Photos by Rodrigo Abd The elite police who work in the dense central jungles of the world’s No. 1 cocaine-producing nation regularly raid the pits in which coca leaves are processed into the paste used to make the drug.
Peru Illegal Mining Raid
Photos by Rodrigo Abd Patricia Quispe sat sullen on a black suitcase outside a dismantled mining camp, nursing her baby son and waiting for her husband, who was among 41 wildcat gold miners arrested in Peru’s latest crackdown on illegal mining in the Amazon.
Peru Indigenous Festival
Photos by Rodrigo Abd Gathered in the middle of the Amazon forest, the participants in the beauty contest wear the simple brown dresses of the Ashaninka indigenous woman, their faces dotted in a traditional design with a red dye extracted from a spice called achiote.
AP Monthly Staff Photo Contest
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In Peruvian Valley, Coca Harvest Means Survival
Photos by Rodrigo Abd Just before sunrise, Raul Rua joins 15 others, including women, teens and children, for a half-hour walk to pick coca in the world’s No. 1 coca-producing valley.
Peru Sea Therapy
Photos by Rodrigo Abd They arrive at Lima’s coast shortly before dawn and wade into the Pacific Ocean, seeking relief from the ailments doctors have been unable to cure.
Outsized Risks Face Peru’s Expendable Cocaine Couriers
Photos by Rodrigo Abd He slides two T-shirts, shorts, canned tuna, toasted corn and boiled potatoes into the rucksack atop 11 pounds of semi-refined cocaine. In a side pocket, a .38-caliber Chinese pistol.
Peruvian Community Lives Half-Year on the Water
Photos by Rodrigo Abd Residents of the Peruvian Amazon community nicknamed “Venice of the Jungle” live half the year on the water, with canoes replacing motorcycle taxis as the most popular form of transport.
AP Photographers Honored with NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism Awards
The National Press Photographers Association announced this week the results for its annual Best of Photojournalism contest and several AP photographers were awarded prizes.
Violent Past Haunts Peru Dances in Ayacucho Area
Photos by Rodrigo Abd They danced all day, until the sun set over Latin America’s oldest bullring. But these were not typical dances of Peru’s highlands.
Worldview: Argentina Daily Life
For this installment of Worldview: Daily Life, we focus on Argentina.
Argentine Prosecutor Killed
Photos by Rodrigo Abd Argentine President Cristina Fernandez said Thursday, January 22, 2015, she’s “convinced” prosecutor Alberto Nisman did not commit suicide as more questions arose in the death of the man who had accused the president of a cover-up in the nation’s worst terrorist attack.
Worldview: Haiti Daily Life
For today’s installment of AP’s Worldview: Daily Life series, we focus on Haiti.
Climate Change
With 2014 on track to become the warmest year on record and time running short, more than 190 nations began talks on a new worldwide deal to limit greenhouse gas emissions and keep global warming from causing irreversible damage.
Peru Attacks Illegal Mining
Photos by Rodrigo Abd Peru has sent 1,000 police into its southeastern jungles to dismantle illegal gold-mining camps, just weeks before the country hosts global climate talks.
Peru’s Dirty War Victims
Photos by Rodrigo Abd It was the second burial for the three members of the citizen self-defense force from this remote Andean village, who officials say died so that others might live.
Peru Unearthing the Bodies
Photos by Rodrigo Abd This remote hamlet on fertile Andean slopes beside the Apurimac river has been a ghost town for three decades, inhabited only by the buried bodies of villagers slain by security forces who considered them rebel sympathizers.
Worldview: Peru Daily Life
Photos by Rodrigo Abd For today’s installment of AP’s Daily Life series, we feature the South American country of Peru and the work of Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Rodrigo Abd.
Game Day: USA vs. Belgium
As U.S. World Cup fans grapple with their 2-1 loss to Belgium, we’ve decided to spread some visual cheer with an extraordinary set of photos by Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Rodrigo Abd, who roamed the streets of Brazil and captured everything from frenzied fans as they made their way to the stadium before the match, to the spectator nuances ofContinue reading “Game Day: USA vs. Belgium”
Peru Mining Ghost Town
Photos by Rodrigo Abd In April of 2014, Peru’s government dialed up a crackdown on illegal gold mining that has badly scarred the ecologically rich southeastern jungle region of Madre de Dios.
Peru’s Illegal Gold
Photos by Rodrigo Abd In a surprise raid, about 1,500 police and troops dynamited $20 million worth of heavy machinery as Peru’s government dialed up a crackdown on illegal gold mining that has badly scarred the ecologically rich southeastern jungle region of Madre de Dios.
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