#  We Are What We Drink 

 



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 **May 18, 2026** 

 05:00PM EDT 

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 **RCCHU Conference Room**  

 [26 Trowbridge St.  
Cambridge, MA 02138  
United States



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What we drink reveals who we are — and who we are allowed to be. In **We Are What We Drink**, Peruvian journalist and researcher **Sergio Rebaza** traces the social and political history of sugarcane distillates across Latin America. His argument: a state's decisions to protect, promote, or criminalize a drink always respond to specific interests — racial, economic, and political. Moving between Peru, Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico, Rebaza examines why some distillates become national symbols while others remain illegal, invisible, or deadly — not because of what's in the bottle, but because of who produces them, who drinks them, and whose culture the state has decided is worth protecting. A presentation about spirits that is really about power.

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**Speaker:** *Sergio Rebaza Gutiérrez.*



 

 



 

 

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