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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.
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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