Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Chanel Francisco Fortunado, 24, participates in Festi Graffiti, a graffiti festival in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Francisco Fortunado has been a graffiti artist since the age of 14.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Perrotón 2018, or Dogathon 2018, took place on September 30 at El Cerrito, a hill in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico. Marimba (from left), Canela, Dobi and Tuti were up for adoption. The event featured an adoption fair, a catwalk for adoptable dogs, a short obstacle course, vaccinations against rabies, free dewormings and exhibitions by trained canines.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Kerlie Prédélus, 24, rides a horse for the first time, with instruction from Fritzner Coriolan, at Wynne Farm Ecological Reserve in the Port-au-Prince commune of Kenscoff, Haiti. Coriolan has been a riding teacher for 15 years, showing people how to enjoy horses beyond their use as beasts of burden.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Ali Kenthia Jean (left), 11, and Mitch Ricarlens Antoine, 15, raise the Haitian flag at Collège Frère Raymond, a private school in the Port-au-Prince commune of Carrefour. Every morning, the students gather around the flag and sing “La Dessalinienne,” Haiti’s national anthem.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

Playa Bacocho, Oaxaca, Mexico

The animal protection group Vive Mar released this turtle, which was less than 2 days old, at Playa Bacocho, a beach in Oaxaca state, Mexico. The group, founded by local residents, rescues turtle eggs that are buried in the sand, before they are found by poachers, who sell them.

Photo by Mar García

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

José Antonio Robles Córdova (center), 11, plays on the “bicibomba,” or bicycle pump, at Escuela Primaria Josefa Ortíz de Domínguez, an elementary school in San Cristóbal de las Casas in Chiapas state, Mexico. He’s flanked by Ángel Gabriel Arias Cupil (left), 8, and Emilio Adrián López Gómez, 7. The bicibomba provides water for the students, teaches them how water circulates through a purifier, and gives them an incentive to exercise and play.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Mexico City, Mexico

Ariel Toledo, 19, disassembles a used mattress on the job at Colchomex, a mattress repair and manufacturing workshop in Mexico City’s Portales Sur neighborhood. Each day, the 50-year-old workshop repairs 15 to 20 used mattresses.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Chaquijyá, Guatemala

Intermediate students perform a folk dance at the Escuela Central, a school in the village of Chaquijyá in Guatemala’s Sololá department. They perform on special occasions to demonstrate their traditions and customs.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Buenos Aires, Argentina

The folk dance group Die Lustigen Tiroler performs traditional Austrian dances at the Plaza de Mayo, a public square in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The performance by the dancers, based in the Villa del Parque neighborhood, was part of an event called Buenos Aires Celebra, during which the city celebrates the nation’s various cultural communities.

Photo by Lucila Pellettieri

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Girbson Bijou entertains wedding guests in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Bijou, who also works as an information technology manager, started his group, Mémorial Band, in 2016.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

Mexico City, Mexico

Ricardo Memeche Mozo paints a pot at the Mercado de Plantas y Flores Acuexcomatl, a market in southern Mexico City. Memeche Mozo, who wants to study to become a chef, makes about 1,400 pesos ($74) per week painting flower pots.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Panajachel, Sololá, Guatemala

Ixmukané Saloj, a graduate of Colegio San Francisco Panajachel, a high school in Panajachel, Guatemala, models a dress made of recycled waste for the school’s “Señorita San Francisco” contest. The dress helped to spread awareness about the dangers of pollution at an event which had environmental conservation as its theme.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Mexico City, Mexico

Tania Guzmán practices hairstyling on her colleague Luis Rodríguez. Both are studying at the Instituto Sol, a beauty school in central Mexico City. The two were in week three of a four-month course. After graduating, Guzmán plans to open a beauty salon, and Rodríguez hopes to open a barbershop and tattoo studio.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Karen Ameal Vera practices parkour at the Parque Rivadavia in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Vera belongs to Facebook and WhatsApp groups whose members meet around the city every Wednesday to practice and teach one another parkour, an urban sport that blends gymnastics and stunts. Vera says, “It becomes a way of life. Now, I look at everything through parkour; I confront life’s obstacles in a different way.”

Photo by Lucila Pellettieri

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Athlete and sports journalist Bárbara Roskin and indoor football player Gonzalo Abdala practice freestyle football, which entails athletic and acrobatic tricks, at the Parque Rivadavia, a public park in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At first, freestyle football was a hobby for the pair, but now they make videos and perform at events and shows.

Photo by Lucila Pellettieri

Carrefour, Haiti

Melissa Eximond, 17, a blue belt, trains under instructor Tales Joseph during a karate class at the Association d'art martial Shotokan karate do d'haiti, a martial arts school in Carrefour, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The school offers classes for children ages 6 to 18, and it tests them every four months for a chance to advance to the next colored belt as well as to help them prepare for national competitions.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

Damassin, Haiti

Elyores Senat, 33, picks a coconut from the very top of a tree in Damassin, Haiti. Senat has been doing this work since age 12. He picks the fruit for a farm owner, who pays him in coconuts, which Senat can later sell. He enjoys the job and sees it as a way to give back to his community, whose residents use coconuts in a variety of foods.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

Sololá, Guatemala

Local painter Julio Cotuc paints children’s games on the playground of a primary school in Aldea Chaquijyá, a village in Sololá, Guatemala. The school’s teachers arranged for the games to be painted in order to help the students have fun during recess.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Mexico City, Mexico

Every morning, Jesús Rodríguez, 60, shovels fresh, crushed ice onto a display stand for raw fish and seafood at his family’s shop in the Mercado Portales, a market in Mexico City. Rodríguez, who has worked at the fish shop for 50 years, says he uses 14 to 16 boxes of crushed ice in the display.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Mexico City, Mexico

In downtown Mexico City, Ma Ortensia Rico Lara, 56, an Evangelical, preaches the “Evangelio de la Salvación” (Gospel of Salvation), inviting people to ask questions and reading from Scripture. Rico Lara, who has spoken at this downtown plaza every day from 4-10 p.m. for the past 10 years, says, “Preaching is the opportunity for human beings to save themselves.”

Photo by Mar García

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Catalina Tomás entertains the crowd during a protest against a proposed law that would fine street performers such as her for making “annoying noises” in public spaces in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The proposal, by the city government, would allow people to anonymously complain to the police about noise made by musicians and other performers.

Photo by Lucila Pellettieri

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Edward Ap Iwan, a guard and clerk for Asociación Amigos del Tranvía, which works to preserve, restore and reinstall historical tram and subway cars, tells visitors about the history of the tramway in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires. Tours are offered on weekends and holidays.

Photo by Lucila Pellettieri

Carrefour, Haiti

Jackson Jean, 30, draws portraits at his home in Carrefour, a neighborhood in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. Jean, who discovered his artistic talent when he was a little boy, started selling sketches in 2009. Local customers often give his portraits as gifts.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Mexico City, Mexico

The performer Payaso Kachito sells balloons made in the image of recently elected Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico City’s Zócalo, the capital’s historic main square, on election night, July 1. At a rally celebrating the win, Payaso Kachito sold balloons for 70 pesos ($3.50) each. In a landslide victory Sunday night, López Obrador became Mexico’s first leftist candidate to win the presidency.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

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