By Kevin McCauley
Former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt's firm is representing El Salvador under a one-year contract worth $420K.
The arrangement calls for lobbying, government relations services and other activities involved with "representing a foreign sovereign before the U.S. Congress and Executive branch."
Gephardt Government Affairs reports to Francisco Caceres, private secretary to El Salvador's president Mauricio Funes.
The former head of the El Salvador's Marxist FMLN party was elected president last year. That election ended 18 years of rule by the conservative Arena party that was backed by the U.S. More than 75,000 people died during El Salvador's civil war.
Funes, a former TV journalist, has restored ties with Cuba and plans to visit Havana next month.
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