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.