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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - July 16, 2010) - Latin American Minerals Inc. (TSX VENTURE:LAT) (the "Corporation") announces that Theodore (Ted) Freedman has resigned as a director of the Corporation. Mr. Freedman has assumed the role of Chair of the Board of Bridgepoint Health, a public Ontario healthcare organization working with complex chronic disease and disability. The Corporation wishes Mr. Freedman well in his new position and thanks him for his dedicated service to the Corporation.

The Corporation is an active mineral exploration company focused on the acquisition and development of mineral projects in under-explored but highly prospective countries of Latin America. Currently focused on its Paso Yobai gold project in Paraguay, the Corporation is developing a track-record of exciting project generation in the Americas.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.