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style='font-size:10.5pt;font-weight:bold'>February 10, 2010</span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Tell <st1:place
w:st="on">Pacific Rim</st1:place> Mining to get out of Cabaņas! </span></font></i></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Since 2005, community organizing efforts have successfully blocked
Pacific Rim Mining Corporation’s application for gold mining permits in the
department of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Cabaņas</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place>. This effective
resistance has been met with death threats, kidnapping attempts and
assassinations against activists who oppose mining. Two more community leaders
were murdered just before the New Year. In early January, Salvadoran President
Mauricio Funes explicitly sided with the environmental movement, declaring “My
government will not authorize any mining extraction projects.” However, <st1:place
w:st="on">Pacific Rim</st1:place> refuses to pack up and leave, despite that
conflicts and violence that its presence has generated.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><font size=3 color=red
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;font-weight:
bold'>TAKE ACTION! </span></font>Call Barbara Henderson, Vice President of
Investor Relations at <st1:place w:st="on">Pacific Rim</st1:place> Mining, and
tell her that the company has the moral responsibility to leave Cabaņas
immediately.</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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from the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> dial 1- (888)
775-7097, or from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region>
(604) 689-1976, and then press ‘1’.</span></font></b></span><font color=navy><span
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Background:</span></font></u></b></span>
On December 20, Ramiro Rivera was gunned down in front of his daughter despite
being under 24-hour police protection. On December 26, Dora “Alicia” Sorto
Recinos was shot to death as she was walking home from the river. She was eight
months pregnant and carrying her two-year old child, who was injured.
Both were leaders in the Environmental Committee of Cabaņas, which has been
active in educating and mobilizing the local community against gold mining. In
June, anti-mining and FMLN activist Marcelo Rivera (no relation to Ramiro) was
found tortured and murdered in an empty well in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">San Isidro</st1:place></st1:City>, Cabaņas, after his disappearance
eleven days prior. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Pacific Rim</span></font></st1:place> has denied any
connection between its proposed mining projects and the recent assassinations,
chalking the violence up to common crimes or a family feud. But leading
government officials, including President Funes, have discussed the attacks
within the context of mining. In a January speech in Cabaņas, President Funes
declared, “We are not going to authorize any mining exploration project… Nor
are we going to allow systematic disappearances and threats against members of
the environmental movement.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>According to a recent declaration by over 30 community organizations
and churches in El Salvador, “Crimes like this did not happen in Cabaņas before
the arrival of Pacific Rim, but rather arose when this transnational
corporation began a strategy of buying people off, dividing communities and
promoting violent acts against community leaders, environmental activists and
religious representatives who rejected their extractive projects.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The international community joins with these communities in denouncing
Pacific Rim’s lawsuit against the Salvadoran government under CAFTA, the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> - Central
America Free Trade Agreement, for hundreds of millions of dollars. By pursuing
the lawsuit, Pacific Rim has continued its presence in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:place></st1:country-region>
despite the decision of the community and the government not to allow mining. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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class=apple-style-span><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>It’s time for <st1:place w:st="on">Pacific
Rim</st1:place> to heed the message of the Salvadoran and international
communities:</span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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class=apple-style-span><b><font size=5 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold'>Drop the lawsuit and
withdraw from Cabaņas!</span></font></b></span><font size=5 color=red><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><font size=4 color=red
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:red;font-weight:
bold'>TAKE ACTION!</span></font></b></span><span class=apple-style-span><b><font
size=2 color="#81000a"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#81000A;font-weight:
bold'> </span></font>Call Barbara Henderson, Vice President of Investor
Relations at <st1:place w:st="on">Pacific Rim</st1:place> Mining TODAY (see
sample script below).</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>To call
from the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> dial 1- (888)
775-7097, or from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region>
(604) 689-1976, and then press ‘1’.</span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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“Hello. I have been following Pacific Rim’s proposed mines in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region> and am extremely disturbed by the
news of assassinated community members in <st1:place w:st="on">Trinidad</st1:place>.
These individuals were part of local organizations that have been actively
opposing mining since 2005. I call on CEO and President Thomas Shrake and
<st1:place w:st="on">Pacific Rim</st1:place>’s Board of Directors to make the
moral decision to:<br>
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1. <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Immediately withdraw
from Cabaņas and cease all efforts to mine gold from the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">El Dorado</st1:place></st1:City> site</span></b>. The
company applied for mining permits and was rejected by the Salvadoran people
and government. <st1:place w:st="on">Pacific Rim</st1:place> has no
business remaining in Cabaņas.<br>
<br>
2. <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Immediately withdraw its
lawsuit against the government of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:place></st1:country-region></span></b>. It is
disgraceful for a company to sue an impoverished nation like <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
especially when the Salvadoran people and government have every right to
prevent cyanide gold extraction from destroying their lands and their
communities.<br>
<br>
3. <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cooperate fully with the
official investigations surrounding the murders</span></b> of Alicia Sorto
Recinos, Ramiro Rivera and Marcelo Rivera, providing full disclosure on all the
people the company has contracted in the region and any other monetary
transactions it has conducted among community members, organizations and local
government officials. Violence is tearing apart Cabaņas, and <st1:place
w:st="on">Pacific Rim</st1:place> has every obligation to offer its full
support to bring to justice the perpetrators of these murdered community
members, all of whom have openly opposed gold mining in the area. <br>
<br>
Thank you.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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