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I'm not sure how realistic this is, so if this is ASB then I ask it to be moved to the proper forum.

In Hergé's The Seven Crystal Balls, Tintin, Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus encounter a gang of modern-day Incas who are out to avenge the defilement of the tomb of the Inca Rascar Capac by an archaeological expedition. In the course of the events, they also kidnap Calculus because he unknowingly put on a bracelet of the Inca and thereby committed sacrilege. This leads our heroes to Peru in Prisoners of the Sun, where they eventually find out that there is a whole mountain fastness in the Andes - The Temple of the Sun - where a large group of Inca have survived until modern times, led by an Inca. It is also strongly implied that this Inca commands the allegiance of a large number of Indians in Peru, thereby forming a hidden society unknown to the Peruvian government. In addition, it is shown in the stories that the Incas regularly interact with the outside world, with a high-ranking member working as an assistant to General Alcazar in his music hall knife-throwing act, and Huascar, a high priest of the sun, moving about in towns in modern clothing. Also, it's apparent that pretty much all of them from the Inca downwards speak Spanish or a related language, since Tintin and Haddock are able to freely communicate with them, and I don't think they'd know Quechua.

So my question is this: what if in 2011 it was revealed that there were surviving Incas hiding in the Andes, led by an Inca, with large numbers of Peruvian citizens secretly obeying the Inca, thereby essentially forming a rival government to Lima? How would the Peruvian government react? Would there be bloodshed, or could a peaceful acommodation be reached? Granted, if this were a hundred years ago bloodshed would be the most likely response (no doubt the reason why the Incas in Hergé's story behaved as they did), but in 2011 it's, well, "uncool" to practice genocide and go all Andrew Jackson on the native populations. Of course, any deal would undoubtedly include a ban on human sacrifice and the like.:)
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