Colombia’s president Gustavo Petro tells journalist he has twice taken ayahuasca

Most politicians prefer not to divulge the details of their drug use or psychedelic histories. Gustavo Petro, the president of Colombia, is not one of those political leaders, as he recently revealed that he’s twice taken ayahuasca, a visionary Amazonian brew also known as yagé.

“The president told me that in his second, and last, journey with yagé, he saw a vision of his own death,” said Daniel Coronell, the author of a new book, The Children of the Amazon, in a Spanish-language interview last year. “I felt he was telling me that he was sure he was going to die at this moment in an attack.”

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Colombia’s President Admits to Drinking Ayahuasca