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Rational PR has signed a PR contract worth $65K per month to provide PR and communications support to El Salvador.
The six-month pact calls for drafting press releases, talking points, social media statements and organizing events.
Rational CEO Patrick Dorton heads the El Salvador team that includes Andrew Homan (director of digital media) and Nicolas Fitzgerald (senior director of PR).
In August, El Salvador hired and fired the Sonoran Policy Group, which had a $450K contract.
The Associated Press reported that El Salvador dropped SPG after the wire service requested a comment about the contract from the country’s office of the president.
El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele, a close ally of president Trump, faces criticism that his “popular policies mask an authoritarian streak,” according to the AP.
Amnesty International reported Oct. 5 that Bukele, who promised to respect human rights when he took office a year ago, is continuing a policy of repression and militarization of public security in El Salvador.
Gabriel Attal, who heads France’s Renaissance Partie, is relying on Gabriel Laurent Eshaghian, a Woodland Hills, CA-based real estate, aviation and investment executive, to boost his profile in the US ahead of France’s April 2027 elections.
TSG Advocates has inked a $240K one-year pact to provide PA and government relations services to the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency.
KARV is providing strategic communications to the American-Uzbek Business and Investment Council to promote US economic ties with the central Asian country.
Bethesda-based Tricuro has signed on South Korea for strategic communications support, messaging development, and media outreach related to US-Korea economic relations.
Ballard Partners has signed on to represent Turkiye’s Ministry of National Defense on matters regarding security issues related to the U.S.
