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Haiti has hired the Latin America Advisory Group to provide PR, Congressional outreach and international media relations services.
The Miami-based shop will prepare talking points for Haitian officials and identify “champions” in Congress to promote various humanitarian/economic assistance programs.
The one-year contract calls for LAAG to develop a messaging strategy, provide background and sometimes “off the record” information to journalists and draft/place OpEd pieces in “reputable” news outlets.
The firm also will create a “revolving” door of events and meetings with think tanks to influence opinion makers.
LAAG partner Damian Merlo, who was special assistant to Haiti’s former president Michel Martelly and prime minister Laurent Lamothe, oversees the $96K account.
He reports to Haiti’s ambassador to the US, Bocchit Edmond.
Bridges Partners is running an influencer campaign on behalf of Israel to promote the cultural interchange between it and the US.
San Diego’s Show Faith by Works is spreading pro-Israel messaging to Christian groups in the western US on behalf of the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
KNP Communications has lined up a contract to provide media training to members of Canada’s US embassy.
The firm of Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale has a four-month $6M agreement for strategic communications and media services in support of Havas Media’s engagement by Israel to develop a nationwide campaign in the US to combat antisemitism.
Imperium Strategies has signed the Government of Turkey as a client for government relations services.
