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Amsterdam & Partners will receive a $4M flat fee to push for the removal of US sanctions on Venezuela. The US does not recognize the government of Venezuela.
A&P assumed the work of Foley & Lardner, which resigned the account last month after Florida Senator Rick Scott blasted it for representing the "brutal regime" of Nicolas Maduro.
F&L was in line for a $12.5M flat fee for devising a "narrative and strategy" to help Venezuela remove the sanctions.
The US on March 26 charged Maduro and his associates with narco-terrorism, alleging they have "deployed cocaine as a weapon" to undermine the US, according to attorney general Bill Barr.
The Trump administration is offering a $15K reward for the capture or conviction of Maduro.
In a TV address, Maduro blasted Trump as a "racist cowboy" who "manages international relations like a New York mafia extortion artist you once were as a real estate boss.”
A&P's contract, which runs through December, is with Venezuela's attorney general Reinaldo Munoz Pedroza, who was not named in the US indictment.
London Global Strategies is providing government relations and PR counsel to the economic development arm of the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí.
Havas Media Germany has hired Piro Inc. to further the digital push of the Israel Government Advertising Agency to sway US public opinion.
Hogan Lovells has signed a $100K monthly pact to represent Venezuela’s Ministry of Economy and Finance, and its Washington embassy.
Liberia has agreed to pay a $100K monthly retainer to Ballard Partners for counsel on how to improve its relations with the US.
Romania has signed a $565K monthly contract with Eversheds Sutherland for strategic counsel and government relations activities.
