VOA常速英语2017--美国指定多名墨西哥毒枭（在线收听）

The United States is in the midst of its most severe drug epidemic since the 1980s. Indeed, although the flow of illicit narcotics across the U.S. border with Mexico threatens people in both countries, in the United States, heroin use has reached the level of a public health crisis. And today, Mexican drug trafficking organizations are the primary suppliers of heroin to the United States.

美国正面临着自上世纪80年代以来最严重的毒品泛滥。确实如此，美墨边境的非法贩毒威胁着两国人民，而且美国海洛因的使用已经达到了公共健康危机的程度。今天，墨西哥的贩毒组织是为美国提供海洛因的主要来源。

One of the tools that helps the U.S. government to dismantle drug trafficking organizations is the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act, also known as the Kingpin Act. The Act allows the U.S. Department of the Treasury to target significant foreign narcotics traffickers, their organizations, and operatives, and deny their access to the U.S. financial system and all trade and transactions involving U.S. companies and individuals.

美国政府剿除贩毒组织的一项利器就是《外国毒枭指定法》(Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act/ Kingpin Act)。这项法律可以让美国财政部找到国外的重大毒枭、其所在的贩毒组织、实际操作者，然后禁止他们进入美国的金融体系，防止他们与美国的企业和个人进行贸易往来和交易。

In late May, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, in close coordination with the Drug Enforcement Administration (or DEA), identified Mexican national Jose Luis Ruelas Torres and the entity he heads, the Ruelas Torres drug trafficking organization, as Significant Foreign Narcotics Traffickers. At the same time, ten associates of the Ruelas Torres organization were tagged as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers.

五月末，美国财政部海外资产控制办公室(OFAC)在与美国缉毒局(DEA)认定墨西哥公民托雷斯(Jose Luis Ruelas Torres)及其领导的组织Ruelas Torres为国外重大毒枭。同时，Ruelas Torres的十名员工也被认定为特别指定毒贩。

The Ruelas Torres drug trafficking organization, which is based in Sinaloa, Mexico, is an independent opium and heroin production and distribution enterprise that has been smuggling heroin into the United States for two decades now. The organization is a family affair, with Jose Luis Ruelas Torres' relatives running various parts of the enterprise, including the production, smuggling, distribution and sales of narcotics, laundering of the proceeds and returning the money to Mexico.

Ruelas Torres贩毒组织位于墨西哥的锡那罗亚州，可以进行鸦片和海洛因的独立生产和流通。过去20年来，这家公司一直都在向美国境内走私海洛因。这家组织是家族企业，公司各个业务线都由托雷斯的亲属来打理，比如生产、走私、流通、销售、洗钱、将钱转回墨西哥。

The joint efforts of the Drug Enforcement Administration and OFAC represent a sustained initiative to combat foreign drug trafficking organizations or those acting on behalf of them, from doing business via the United States, said Barbara Roach, DEA Special Agent in Charge of the Field Division in Denver, Colorado, one of the main destinations for the Ruelas Torres drug trafficking organization.

美国缉毒局和美国财政部海外资产控制办公室的通力合作代表着双方在打击境外贩毒组织和代理贩毒组织通过美国进行贩毒交易的持续努力，美国缉毒局负责科罗拉多州丹佛分区的特工芭芭拉 罗奇如是说道。科罗拉多州丹佛区就是Ruelas Torres贩毒组织的主要目标地之一。

Such sanctions serve as one of the most important and multi-faceted avenues with which U.S. law enforcement can effectively and efficiently disrupt and dismantle major international drug trafficking organizations and anyone doing business with them.

这种制裁是最重要的、面面俱到的方式之一，通过这种方式，美国的执法机关能够切实有效地打乱甚至剿灭国际贩毒组织和与他们有交易的人。