Fury in Peru after officials secretly received vaccine before health workers
Simeon Tegel, The Washington Post
Feb. 17, 2021
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LIMA, Peru - When interim president Francisco Sagasti finally unveiled Peru s first coronavirus vaccine deal last month, Peruvians wearied by nearly a year of twin health and economic crises compounded by the country s recent political turmoil glimpsed a light at the end of the tunnel.
As ICU doctors and nurses this month began receiving their shots from the first batch - 300,000 doses from the Chinese company Sinopharm - cautious optimism began to spread. Sagasti said he hoped to have a third of Peru s 32 million people vaccinated by the time he steps down on July 28.
the hell knows what they are doing. people really are carrying a lot of abuse, so many things are deeply rooted. is ayahuasca a cure for this stuff? i think if you can dislodge that negative energy, if you can glimpse what you could be without it, you can go back home and work on getting rid of it. if you think you re just going to take joy juice and hey, dislodge it, you re nuts. five years of work to get rid of it, and still it can be unhealed. peter settled in iquitos in the 1990s when he witnessed the first wave of ayahuasca tourism. while he endorses psychedelic healing, he s worried about how traditions are changing. traditionally, the shaman drinks. the shaman. he accesses other realms of reality to find out where the dissonance is that if the shaman corrects will eliminate the symptom on this. could be physical, could be emotional.
town of iquitos located deep in the amazon. this outpost has become the epicenter of a growing industry of ayahuasca tourism. i m on my way to a jungle retreat, one of many run by ex-pat americans. these forests produce many of our modern medicines. and i want to find out if ayahuasca could someday become one of them. this is el pugero, or the purger, a collection of simple huts tucked away in the forest. it s amazing to me that there are over 100 of these ayahuasca centers in this part of peru. almost all of them are run by foreigners, and most of them don t have electricity or even running water, but yet people are coming. they re coming and staying in little huts like this one because they say they re not
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50 soles. to guide me on the potential pitfalls of ayahuasca tourism is the writer and ayahuasca expert peter gorman. what are some of the dangers of buying ayahuasca randomly in the market like this? you don t know what it would be. what if it s not ayahuasca. the danger wouldn t be anything specific, it would just be, who the hell knows what they are doing. people really are carrying a lot of abuse, so many things are deeply rooted. is ayahuasca a cure for this stuff? i think if you can dislodge that negative energy, if you can glimpse what you could be without it, you can go back home and work on getting rid of it. if you think you re just going to take joy juice and hey, dislodge it, you re nuts. five years of work to get rid of it, and still it can be unhealed. peter settled in iquitos in the 1990s when he witnessed the first wave of ayahuasca tourism. while he endorses psychedelic healing, he s worried about how