VOA常速英语2018--美国称将加大力度打击墨西哥毒贩（在线收听）

The United States continues to methodically target the individuals and businesses who profit from the sale heroin.

美国依然在系统性地打击从贩卖海洛因中获利的个人和企业。

Most recently, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, imposed additional sanctions on eight Mexican individuals and eight Mexican companies linked to the Sinaloa-based criminal organization, which has been led by Joel Efren Ruelas Avila since the 2017 death of his father Jose Luis Ruelas Torres.

最近，美国财政部海外资产控制办公室(OFAC)对分别对8名墨西哥个人和8家墨西哥公司施加了新的制裁措施，因为他们与锡那罗亚州的犯罪组织有关。该组织自2017年托雷斯(Jose Luis Ruelas Torres)去世以来，就由其子乔尔(Joel Efren Ruelas Avila)领导。

Under the Kingpin Act, Americans are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions or otherwise dealing with these individuals and companies, and any assets they may have under U.S. jurisdiction are frozen.

根据《外国毒枭指定法》，美国人禁止与这些个人和公司进行交易。此外，这些个人和公司在美国管辖范围内的资产也将受到冻结。

The Ruelas Torres drug trafficking organization has been involved in the manufacture and distribution of heroin from Sinaloa, Mexico to the United States for generations. The Ruelas Torres drug trafficking organization is now led by Joel Efren Ruelas Avila and immediate family members who support narcotics trafficking activities, including money laundering or maintaining assets on behalf of the Ruelas Torres organization.

多年来，托雷斯的贩毒组织一直都在参与海洛因的生产，以及从墨西哥的锡那罗亚州分销到美国。如今，该组织由其子乔尔及其直系亲属领导，他们负责支持贩卖毒品的活动，比如洗钱或者以托雷斯组织的名义来维系资产。

In 2015, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado charged Mexican national Jose Luis Ruelas Torres and his son Joel Efren Ruelas Avila with running a Continuing Criminal Enterprise, along with related narcotics trafficking and money laundering offenses. OFAC identified Mexican national Jose Luis Ruelas Torres and the Ruelas Torres organization as significant foreign narcotics traffickers pursuant to the Kingpin Act in May 2017. Mexican authorities arrested Jose Luis Ruelas Torres in April 2017, and he died in October 2017 while awaiting extradition to the United States. His son Joel Efren Ruelas Avila remains at large.

2015年，专门负责科罗拉多区的美国检察官办公室起诉了墨西哥国籍的托雷斯及其子乔尔，罪名是运营贩毒类公司，以及相关的贩毒罪和洗钱罪。2017年5月，根据《外国毒枭指定法》，海外资产控制办公室确认墨西哥籍的托雷斯及其组织为重大境外毒枭。2017年4月，墨西哥当局逮捕了托雷斯；2017年10月，托雷斯在等候引渡到美国期间去世。其子乔尔依然逍遥法外。

Sigal Mandelker is Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. She said, Heroin use is an epidemic in the United States, fueled by smugglers like Joel Efren Ruelas Avila and his drug trafficking organization who bring deadly drugs across our Southern border and seek to launder illicit proceeds back into Mexico. The U.S. will continue to target those who traffic in death and drugs.

财政部副部长曼德尔科(Sigal Mandelker) 负责恐怖主义和金融情报事务。她表示，海洛因在美国非常普遍，这是由乔尔及其贩毒组织这样的毒枭助长的。他们将致命的毒品带往南部边境，并将非法收益通过洗钱的方式流入墨西哥。美国将继续以贩卖人口和毒品的人为打击的目标。