Alternative Versions and Adaptations
When serialized in the French magazine Cœurs Vaillants, the story was retitled Tintin chez les Arumbayas (Tintin meets the Arumbayas).
In the animated series, Rodrigo Tortilla is removed, and replaced with Lopez, who is a former cellmate of Ramon and Alonso. Tintin saves Ramon and Alonso – while they drown in the comic (and are depicted as being taken to Hell by little winged devils). Also the whole sub-plot involving the war between San Theodoros and Nuevo Rico over the oil fields is absent. In the original, the Arumbuya artifact was referred to as the "fetish", but because of the sexual connotations of the word 'fetish', it is replaced with 'idol'.
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