The massive consumption of psychedelics has intensified debates about their impacts on indigenous communities in Latin America. As globalization drives the commercial and therapeutic use of sacred plants, tensions are generated between Western holistic wellbeing and the preservation of indigenous cultural heritage. This text examines how psychedelic extractivism de-territorializes plants and ancestral knowledge, creating new markets that transform traditional relationships with these beings considered political-spiritual agents by native peoples.

Wn this text I present a commentary on the essay "Inequalities and the re-politicization of the social in Latin America" by Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz. Based on the critical approach that the author proposes to the processes of re-politicization of the social and (dis)empowerment, provoked by the profound mutations of the (neo)liberal order, I make an exercise of dialogue, expansion and feedback in terms of conflicts and collective responses, with transforming longings and possibilities in contexts of socio-environmental conflict. In particular, I present some traces of the social antagonism of community struggles in defense of life in the face of the extractivist offensive on territories and livelihoods.