VOA常速英语:Designation Of Mexican Drug Smugglers(翻译)

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.
美国正处于20世纪80年代以来最严重的毒品泛滥之中，事实上，尽管在美国与墨西哥接壤的边境地区非法毒品交易盛行，对两国人民都造成了威胁，但海洛因在美国已经达到危害公共卫生的程度。而墨西哥贩毒组织则是美国海洛因的主要供应商。

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.
美国政府摧毁贩毒组织的一个强有力的工具是《外国毒枭指定法》，又称为《指定法》。该法案允许美国财政部锁定主要的外国毒品走私者，以及他们背后的组织和其他人员，并封锁他们对美国金融系统的访问，阻止其与美国企业和个人的一切贸易往来。

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.
五月下旬，美国财政部海外资产控制办公室与毒品强制管理局加强交流，密切配合，确定了墨西哥一大外国毒品走私商，Jose Luis Ruelas Torres及其背后的贩毒组织Ruelas Torres。同时，Ruelas Torres的十名成员被标记为特别指定毒贩。

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.
贩毒组织Ruelas Torres位于墨西哥的锡那罗亚州，是一个独立的鸦片和海洛因生产销售企业，走私海洛因到美国长达二十年。该组织由一个家族掌控，Jose Luis Ruelas Torres的亲戚负责企业经营运行的各个部分，包括生产、销售、走私毒品，在国外洗钱并带回墨西哥。

“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.
“缉毒局和海外资产控制办公室的共同努力表示了美国持续主动打击境外贩毒组织，或以贸易为名的毒品走私行为的决心，”芭芭拉·罗奇说道，她是缉毒局的一名特工，负责科罗拉多州的丹佛分区，这里是Ruelas Torres贩卖毒品的一个主要目的地。

“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.”
“这种制裁是最重要也是最全面的途径之一，美国执法可以有效地摧毁国际主要贩毒组织及与其有关的贸易往来。”