Washington D.C.-based public affairs, communication and political advisory shop Sanitas International, LLC has been hired to represent Dominican Republic independent politician Minou Tavárez Mirabal, who is running for president in that country’s 2016 general election.
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Tavárez Mirabal, who previously served as DR deputy foreign minister, was later elected to that Hispaniola-based country's parliament, for which she has served since, and is also the committee president of non-profit international network Parliamentarians for Global Action. She is the daughter of revolutionaries Manolo Tavarez Justo and Minerva Mirabal, the latter of whom was killed in 1960 along with her two sisters by Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo's Military Intelligence Service secret police unit.
Tavárez Mirabal is currently the leading candidate to succeed the Dominican Republic's current president, Danilo Medina.
According to Foreign Agents Registration Act documents, Sanitas will provide political strategy for Tavárez Mirabal and her campaign and will also work to secure principal media interviews in international media outlets.
Tavárez Mirabal's campaign receives financial subsidies from DR’s Opcion Democratica (Democratic Choice) political party, which she formed in 2014.
Sanitas founding partner Christopher Harvin, who held senior advisory positions in the Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, signed the agreement.
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