In just six months, Donald Trump’s government has been characterized by applying radical policies using false information to justify their performance. An example of this is the narrative created around the extinct band of Aragua, which became, through false news, an alleged threat to the national security of the United States.
One of the architects of this strategy was Joseph Humire, an official recently awarded by Trump with the position of Chief of Policy for the West of the United States Department of Defense, after directing a group of experts who published false reports on the activities of the Aragua Train in the United States.
It was these reports that served to justify the declaration as terrorists to that criminal group, and then deport 252 innocent Venezuelans accused of belonging to that organization.
Humire was appointed in the last weeks Head of the Military Office responsible for the security strategy and policy in Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean, a position formally known as the Interim Deputy Secretary of Defense for Defense for Affairs of the Western Hemisphere.
The information was confirmed by Insight Crime, an organization that analyzes organized crime operations – directed by a conservative British ex -military and not precisely Chavista, which in turn is dedicated to attacking the Bolivarian government – which published a monitoring of alleged crimes committed by the Aragua train within the United States of which at least five events were false.
Reveals research, that one of the false events is dated March 10, 2025, one day before Humire testified in the United States Congress on immigration and security issues, including the Aragua train.
The false information, with which Joseph Humire testified to Congress, led to empty web portals, non -existent newspapers or invented police records, when the information provided by Trump’s official was reviewed.
Insight Crime analyzed more than 90 entries in the monitor and discovered that many others were based on non -verified social networks or partisan sources. Some incidents include several times, which inflates the perception of the presence and activities of the gang.
The information coincides with the one carried out by two intelligence officials in the United States, who were fired from their positions after revealing that there is no connection between the extinct band of Aragua and the government of Nicolás Maduro, as said the reports of Humire and the Trump government.
Humire continued to publicly defend that version in media like Fox News, where he said that the Aragua train worked as a “armed arm of Chavismo” in an “asymmetric war” against the United States. No American intelligence agency has supported that accusation
