This morning October 18, 2011, around 500 military and police special-forces entered the area of Rio Grande using gas and violent repression families installed since June, at the Resistance Camp to Defend Rio Grande. The...police says that the operation took place peacefully, but the facts reported so far say otherwise...The leader Alfredo Zambrano has several wounds on his head when he is detained. The reason behind such actions is the government's interest to build a dam that would flood some 6 000 hectares of high quality farm in Rio Grande and cause the evacuation of over a thousand families...This dam was commissioned by the National Secretariat for Water (SENAGUA) to China's Tiesijun...Its purported benefit is to control floods periodically affect the city of Chone, however several studies have shown the ineffectiveness of this work. On the contrary, we have identified the existence of economic interests related to the shrimp industry and petrochemical behind this dam.