…Planned to consist of four dams… [the Madeira River Complex mega-project is] the latest in a long string of environmentally destructive colonization projects to descend on Brazil's Rondônia state… the Madeira dams will not only tear apart the social fabric of [riverine] communities, but will devastate fish stocks, Rondônia's principal source of nutrition…the Brazilian government, parastatal companies, and the National Development Bank have made enormous investments in the dams… It is common for riverine communities to receive little or no consultation, let alone compensation, from the government or the consortiums responsible for the dams… where these people have opposed plans for resettlement… the government has responded with insidious intimidation tactics and coercion.