Pacific Rim Mining Corporation

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Pacific Rim Mining Corporation is a Vancouver, Canada-based multinational mining company that works throughout the Americas. It merged with Dayton Mining Corporation in 2002. Its largest project is the El Dorado project in El Salvador. Environmentalists and local people have campaigned for the project to be discontinued over concerns of pollution arising from the extraction of gold and silver. In June 2009 prominent anti-mining activist Marcelo Rivera Moreno was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Cabañas. In December 2009 two more activists (Ramiro Rivera Gomez on December 20 and Dora Alicia Recinos Sorto on December 26) that oppose Pacific Rim's activities in their home region were killed. Dora Sorto was eight months pregnant when she was shot dead, and her two year old son was also wounded in the attack.