People evacuated their homes as Hurricane Polo approached Puerto San Carlos in Mexico’s Baja California Sur state on Monday, September 28, 2026. Those evacuations led an Associated Press photo gallery covering Latin America and the Caribbean, alongside images from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Uruguay and Panama. The gallery documents the evacuation, but it gives no number of residents who left their homes or further detail about the storm’s effects.
The evacuation in Mexico
The photograph from Puerto San Carlos placed residents’ departure ahead of the gallery’s other scenes. The base report identifies the location, the approaching hurricane and the date, but doesn’t describe damage, evacuation arrangements or what happened to the residents afterward. It doesn’t report any change to government authority, border policy or population figures. The reported fact is simple: people evacuated as Hurricane Polo approached.
The gallery’s curator, AP photojournalist Ramón Espinosa, worked in Havana. AP updated it at 8:19 p.m. UTC on October 1, 2026. Its other photographs covered political campaigning, a desert transformed by rainfall, a wildlife scene, public gatherings and beach visitors across the region.
Campaigns and public scenes
In Sao Paulo, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who was running for reelection, greeted supporters at a campaign rally on Saturday, September 26. A separate image showed opposition presidential candidate Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro campaigning in Sao Paulo on Monday, September 28. The article gives no campaign statements, polling figures or election results; it records the candidates’ public appearances and the dates when photographers took the pictures.
In Ecuador, competitors raced guinea pigs during celebrations marking the 107th anniversary of the canton of Salcedo on Saturday, September 26. In Bogota, Colombia, visitors attended the international art fair ARTBO on Thursday, September 24. The gallery also included a reveler at a Pride parade in Montevideo, Uruguay, on Friday, September 25. The source identifies these scenes and locations, but it doesn’t offer further accounts of the events or their participants.
The gallery’s other images
Near Copiapo, a carpet of flowers covered part of Chile’s Atacama Desert after rains on Thursday, September 24. Off El Doradillo Beach near Puerto Madryn, Argentina, seabirds perched on the carcass of a southern right whale on Wednesday, September 30. The photographs captured specific scenes. The article gives no further explanation of the rainfall, the whale’s death or the birds’ behavior.
Another Buenos Aires photograph showed residents gathered in a communal area at Pequeño Cottolengo Don Orione, a home for people with disabilities. Pope Leo XIV was scheduled to visit the home in November. The report doesn’t give a specific date for the planned visit. In Panama, a man sat on the black sand of Chame beach on Sunday, September 27.
The gallery records images and their settings; it doesn’t report demographic change or a transfer of sovereignty. It names no migration policy, international agreement, funding arrangement or dissident political response. The documented facts are the evacuation near Puerto San Carlos and the dated scenes selected for AP’s regional photo gallery.