By The Associated Press
In this Friday, Nov. 1, 2013, Lazaro Martinez, drenched in mud, pauses while searching for his wife and two children, in the town of La Pintada, Mexico. La Pintada residents are demanding that the government continue the recovery of bodies buried in the massive landslide triggered by Tropical Storm Manuel, engulfing half the remote coffee-growing village. (AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez)
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In this Oct. 28, 2013 photo, Evelina Gonzalez is reflected in a mirror in her bedroom in Maracay,Venezuela. Gonzalez is on a list of 31 breast cancer patients waiting to have tumors removed at one of the country’s biggest medical facilities, Maracay’s Central Hospital. The hospital’s physicians sent some 300 patients in need of cancer operations home last month. Supply shortages, unsanitary conditions and equipment failures have forced them to scratch all but emergency surgeries. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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In this Friday, Nov. 1, 2013 photo, a man carrying bottles of beer helps his granddaughter Camila, 3, negotiate a hilly dirt path as they make their way to their relative’s graveside in the Nueva Esperanza cemetery during the Day of the Dead in Lima, Peru. While in the Judeo-Christian traditions, the dead go to either heaven or hell based on their behavior on Earth, many in Mesoamerica and Andean countries think they work for the Gods and are supported by their family members still on Earth, according to anthropologist Elio Masferrer. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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In this Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013 photo, the Canadian pop star Justin Bieber, who is currently touring South America, performs during his Believe world tour concert in Asuncion, Paraguay. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
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This Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013 photo shows pictures of Russian Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky stapled to a migration document on display at the National Institute of Migration, part of an exhibit marking the organization’s 20th anniversary, in Mexico City. Trotsky came to Mexico using painter Diego Rivera as a reference. The exhibit of 16 notables include Cuba’s revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and Nicaraguan guerrilla leader Augusto Cesar Sandino. All spent time in Mexico, a country that’s welcomed waves of political exiles over the decades and has now decided to pay homage to some of the most famous exiles. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
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In this Friday, Nov. 1, 2013 photo, a model wears a creation from the Samuel Cirnansck winter collection during Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Victoria Secret Angels’ Gisele Bundchen, Erin Heatherton and Candice Swanepoel were on hand to walk the runways with creations by Colcci and Forum. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
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In this Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013 photo, a donkey led by a protesting farmer walks past a cordon of police along Reforma Ave. in Mexico City. Farmers are demanding that the selling price of their basic food products, such as beans, be set at a higher rate. They also want to be able to sell their products directly to the government instead of through intermediaries known as coyotes. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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In this Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013 photo released by the Bolivian Information Agency, an aircraft wing of the Aerocom Bolivian airline burns after the plane crashed near the airport in Riveralta, Bolivia. Bolivian authorities said the small airliner crashed while trying to land at an airport in northern Bolivia and eight people died. A hospital official in the city of Riberalta says two of the 10 people who survived Sunday’s crash suffered serious injuries. (AP Photo/Bolivian Information Agency)
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In this Friday, Nov. 1, 2013 photo, a pig’s head, sporting a pair of sunglasses, is used to promote a makeshift restaurant near the Nueva Esperanza cemetery, as part of the Day of the Dead celebrations in Lima, Peru. The holiday known in Spanish as ‘Dia de los Muertos’ is especially popular in Mexico, but is also observed in other countries around the region, including Peru, Bolivia and Guatemala. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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In this Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013 photo, men belonging to a self-defense group stand at a checkpoint in the town of Las Colonias, Mexico. Two leaders of the main vigilante groups in western Michoacan state said Tuesday that they are pulling back from confronting the Knights Templar drug cartel because the Mexican government has promised to oust traffickers from the area. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
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Throughout Latin America, people honored their departed loved ones with Day of the Dead celebrations, blending pre-Columbian rituals with Roman Catholic observances. They created elaborate altars and cleaned tombs, decorating them with fresh flowers and holding graveside picnics. In the southwestern Mexican community of La Pintada, a man continued his search for his wife and two children in the community’s mud-caked ruins weeks after Tropical Storm Manuel triggered a massive mudslide there. Residents demand that the government keep looking for bodies still buried under the mud that engulfed half of the remote coffee-growing village. Mexico’s National Institute of Migration celebrated its 20th anniversary with an exhibit paying homage to some of the most famous exiles who spent time in the country. It displayed the entry documents of 16 notables, including Russian Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky, Cuba’s Fidel Castro, and Nicaraguan guerrilla leader Augusto Cesar Sandino.
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