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The region of South America has passed through centuries of foreign rule, colonialism, oppression, eventual revolution and liberation, followed by instability, economic decline, political corruption, revolution and several coups. Despite all of these problems, the nations of South America managed to endure these hardships and survive through the 18th century.
During WWI South America remained neutral, although a lot of nations had significant German minorities, and their governments were friendly towards the Central Powers. The same thing happened during the Second World War, since South America was protected by the US through the Monroe Doctrine, so the nations remained out of the war, despite their administrations’ close links with the Axis.
The Cold War was an era of great changes for the South American countries. With a communist revolution in Cuba, and several far-left insurgencies in Central America, the United States started intervening more and more in the affairs of South America, funding coups and supporting right-wing movements and militias. Several internal conflicts happened in these countries at the time, like in Colombia and Peru.
The Peruvian Internal conflict was probably the most well-known of them all. During the 1980’s the Peruvian government fought a war with the Shining Path, a communist movement, notorious for its brutality. Among the different groups that fought in this war, there was also the Peruvian Ethnocacerist Movement. “Ethnocacerism” was a political ideology that supported the creation of a nation-state for the indigenous people of Peru, and the expansion into neighboring countries in order to reform the Inca Empire.
In our reality, the war between the Government of Peru and the Shining Path continues to this day. In this alternate timeline, the Shining Path starts to fade away during the late 80’s and the ethnocacerists start gaining more power. The PEM won major victories against the Peruvian government. By 1987 the movement controlled all of southern Peru, establishing a provisional government. On February 23rd 1988, the Peruvian capital of Lima fell in the hands of the PEM. The government collapsed and the PEM took over the country.The new regime started reorganizing the country. All political parties and movements except from the PEM were outlawed, including the Shining Path. All positions in the government were filled with indigenous Peruvians, while the subdivisions of the country were changed to mirror the subdivisions of the old Inca Empire. The flag of the PEM became the national flag of Peru.
Just a year later, the new regime went to war with neighboring Ecuador over some border disputes. The Peruvian-Ecuadorian War lasted for just three months, and ended with the defeat of Ecuador. The country was annexed by Peru. Seeing this aggressive move, Bolivia and Chile decided to form an alliance, in order to defend against a possible Peruvian invasion. This supposed invasion happened sooner than the world thought. On December of 1989, Peru started attacking both Chile and Bolivia. Although experts found it difficult at first to determine who was going to get on top, with the occupation of La Paz, the Bolivian capital by Peru on March 1990, it was soon clear who had the upper hand in that conflict.
Bolivia surrendered in late March, and Chile followed soon afterwards. Peru annexed the two countries, causing the shock and judgment of the international community. But that was the least the Peruvians cared about. Right after the annexation, the Peruvian regime started a large propaganda campaign, claiming the wars they fought were “struggles for the liberation of the traditional indigenous lands and the reunification of the ancient Inca state”. Soon afterwards, the capital of the country was moved from Lima to Cuzco, the old Inca capital. On October 6th 1990, the Republic of Peru was officially abolished. The Neo-Inca Empire was born.
The country claimed to be the rightful successor of the ancient Inca state. Although it was called an empire, the country was a totalitarian single-party dictatorship, ruled by the renamed Ethnocacerist Union of the Inca People. The Inca religion was revived, with the government placing a huge emphasis on replacing all other existing religions of the Empire with that. The Quechua language became the official language of the new state.
Neighboring countries were terrified by the rise of this revived Inca Empire, and sought to weaken its influence. In 1991,Brazil, Argentina,Colombia,Venezuela and the rest of the South American states created the Buenos Aires Pact, a military alliance with the goal of defending against the Neo-Inca Empire and protecting the independence and integrity of the rest of South America.
The Neo-Inca Empire could sound as just a fantasy in the minds of the people before its creation, but its eventual rise created a new order in South America, that wasn’t going to collapse soon…

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The region of South America has passed through centuries of foreign rule, colonialism, oppression, eventual revolution and liberation, followed by instability, economic decline, political corruption, revolution and several coups. Despite all of these problems, the nations of South America managed to endure these hardships and survive through the 18th century.
During WWI South America remained neutral, although a lot of nations had significant German minorities, and their governments were friendly towards the Central Powers. The same thing happened during the Second World War, since South America was protected by the US through the Monroe Doctrine, so the nations remained out of the war, despite their administrations’ close links with the Axis.
The Cold War was an era of great changes for the South American countries. With a communist revolution in Cuba, and several far-left insurgencies in Central America, the United States started intervening more and more in the affairs of South America, funding coups and supporting right-wing movements and militias. Several internal conflicts happened in these countries at the time, like in Colombia and Peru.
The Peruvian Internal conflict was probably the most well-known of them all. During the 1980’s the Peruvian government fought a war with the Shining Path, a communist movement, notorious for its brutality. Among the different groups that fought in this war, there was also the Peruvian Ethnocacerist Movement. “Ethnocacerism” was a political ideology that supported the creation of a nation-state for the indigenous people of Peru, and the expansion into neighboring countries in order to reform the Inca Empire.
In our reality, the war between the Government of Peru and the Shining Path continues to this day. In this alternate timeline, the Shining Path starts to fade away during the late 80’s and the ethnocacerists start gaining more power. The PEM won major victories against the Peruvian government. By 1987 the movement controlled all of southern Peru, establishing a provisional government. On February 23rd 1988, the Peruvian capital of Lima fell in the hands of the PEM. The government collapsed and the PEM took over the country.The new regime started reorganizing the country. All political parties and movements except from the PEM were outlawed, including the Shining Path. All positions in the government were filled with indigenous Peruvians, while the subdivisions of the country were changed to mirror the subdivisions of the old Inca Empire. The flag of the PEM became the national flag of Peru.
Just a year later, the new regime went to war with neighboring Ecuador over some border disputes. The Peruvian-Ecuadorian War lasted for just three months, and ended with the defeat of Ecuador. The country was annexed by Peru. Seeing this aggressive move, Bolivia and Chile decided to form an alliance, in order to defend against a possible Peruvian invasion. This supposed invasion happened sooner than the world thought. On December of 1989, Peru started attacking both Chile and Bolivia. Although experts found it difficult at first to determine who was going to get on top, with the occupation of La Paz, the Bolivian capital by Peru on March 1990, it was soon clear who had the upper hand in that conflict.
Bolivia surrendered in late March, and Chile followed soon afterwards. Peru annexed the two countries, causing the shock and judgment of the international community. But that was the least the Peruvians cared about. Right after the annexation, the Peruvian regime started a large propaganda campaign, claiming the wars they fought were “struggles for the liberation of the traditional indigenous lands and the reunification of the ancient Inca state”. Soon afterwards, the capital of the country was moved from Lima to Cuzco, the old Inca capital. On October 6th 1990, the Republic of Peru was officially abolished. The Neo-Inca Empire was born.
The country claimed to be the rightful successor of the ancient Inca state. Although it was called an empire, the country was a totalitarian single-party dictatorship, ruled by the renamed Ethnocacerist Union of the Inca People. The Inca religion was revived, with the government placing a huge emphasis on replacing all other existing religions of the Empire with that. The Quechua language became the official language of the new state.
Neighboring countries were terrified by the rise of this revived Inca Empire, and sought to weaken its influence. In 1991,Brazil, Argentina,Colombia,Venezuela and the rest of the South American states created the Buenos Aires Pact, a military alliance with the goal of defending against the Neo-Inca Empire and protecting the independence and integrity of the rest of South America.
The Neo-Inca Empire could sound as just a fantasy in the minds of the people before its creation, but its eventual rise created a new order in South America, that wasn’t going to collapse soon…