An assistant of Colombian shaman Claudino Perez (not in frame) takes part in a yage or ayahuasca ceremony in La Mesa, Cundinamarca department, Colombia on March 09, 2024. Perez, as well as six other indigenous people from Peru and Brazil, had been arrested in Mexico for "introduction of narcotics”, for carrying bottles of ayahuasca or yage -an ancestral concoction of the Amazon peoples based on chakruna and ayahuasca. After remaining in custody for two years he demonstrated the importance of this brew for his worldview and was released. (Photo by Luis ACOSTA / AFP)