FitzGibbon Media represents Venezuela's DC embassy under a six-month contract worth $150K.
The agreement, runs through November, calls for FitzGibbon to provide PR strategy and media relations services. Client must approve any additional work in advance.
The US and Venezuela have a strained relationship, dating to the days of former president Hugo Chavez. Current Venezuela president Nicolas Maduro is a protégé of Chavez.
Earlier this year, the US imposed sanctions on top Venezuela officials for alleged human right violations.
A diplomatic thaw between the countries may be at hand. Diplomats from both sides met in Haiti on June 13 in a session billed as "a process of rapprochement." Neither country has had an ambassador in the counterpart nation since 2010.
Trevor FitzGibbon and Suzanne Gilbert handle Venezuela work. They report to Maximillen Arvelaiz, charge d'affairs at the embassy.
Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications also works for Venezuela under a one-year contract worth $420K.
Cogent Strategies has signed on to support the European Union’s social media push to promote its policies and messages to the American public.
FGS Global has updated its public diplomacy and communications contract with the embassy of the United Arab Emirates, showing $5.6M in fees through 2006.
Impact Management Group, which is headed by Republican operative Terry Benham, works to build US support for Ukraine.
Rational 360 has ironed out its six-month $1.2M contract with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund to position it as a “sophisticated global investment fund.”
APCO has signed on to promote this month’s visit of Ahmed Al Khateeb, head of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Tourism, to the US.
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