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TOPSHOT - Peruvian shaman of the Amazon Shipibo-Konibo people Lauro Hinostroza performs a ritual before an interview with AFP in Mexico City on February 22, 2024. Hinostroza, who landed in Mexico City on September 2023 to preside over the International Congress of Indigenous Peoples' Medicine and had been arrested for "introduction of narcotics", for carrying bottles of ayahuasca or yage -an ancestral concoction of the Amazon peoples made with sacred chakruna and ayahuasca plants- is now working to raise the money to return to Peru after his release from prison in March. (Photo by CARL DE SOUZA / AFP) (Photo by CARL DE SOUZA/AFP via Getty Images)