In June of 2017,  five delegates of UMIYAC attended the Fifth Congress of Latin American Anthropology, in Bogotá, Colombia. UMIYAC presented a paper at a symposium organized by anthropologists Alhena Caicedo and Beatriz

The annual Congress of the Union of Indigenous Yagé Medics of the Colombian Amazon took place in Mocoa, Putumayo, Colombia on March 2017. More than seventy members belonging to the Siona, Cofán, Inga