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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.
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.
