Bolivian / Andean curanderismo high-control variants (umbrella)

Bolivian and Peruvian Andean indigenous-religious practice — Aymara yatiri healing, Quechua paqo Andean cosmology, the broader curanderismo of the altiplano and the Sacred Valley — is overwhelmingly mainstream low-control voluntary practice rooted in sustained communal tradition. This entry covers the smaller subset of specific living-yatiri and paqo figures, mostly in the post-2000 Western-tourist and ayahuasca-tourism era, whose lineages have produced documented high-control patterns: substantial fees for 'initiations' (often US$1,000–10,000+ per cycle), formation of closed Western-convert sub-communities around a single figure, severance pressure on those who exit, and in specific cases unsafe psychedelic-medicine practice (mishandled ayahuasca decoctions sourced through Bolivia and Peru, San Pedro / huachuma cardio-toxicity unmonitored). Investigative coverage by Chacruna Institute (2018+), DoubleBlind Magazine, and Bolivian and Peruvian press has named multiple specific figures; the entry stays at umbrella level because the most-documented cases (e.g. specific Sacred Valley retreat-centre operators) have legal proceedings that constrain individual naming. CLCI rating reflects the named high-control sub-pattern, not the mainstream indigenous tradition.