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The U.S. government has charged Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro with drug trafficking. Attorney General Bill Barr announced the charges earlier this morning. Here he is.

美国政府以毒品贩运罪起诉委内瑞拉总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗。美国司法部长威廉·巴尔今天早些时候宣布了这些指控。下面是他所说。

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WILLIAM BARR: The indictment¹ of Nicolas Maduro and his co-defendants alleges² a conspiracy³ involving an extremely violent terrorist organization known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the FARC, and an effort to flood the United States with cocaine⁴.

威廉·巴尔：起诉书指控尼古拉斯·马杜罗及其同案被告与极端暴力恐怖组织“哥伦比亚革命武装力量”（简称FARC）密谋，企图让大量可卡因涌入美国。

KING: NPR's justice correspondent Ryan Lucas is following this story. Hey, Ryan.

金：NPR新闻的司法记者瑞安·卢卡斯正在追踪这则新闻。你好，瑞安。

RYAN LUCAS, BYLINE⁵: Hi there.

瑞安·卢卡斯连线：你好。

KING: What is Maduro charged with exactly?

金：具体来说，马杜罗被控哪些罪名？

LUCAS: So Maduro is accused of narcoterrorism, basically. The attorney general said that Maduro is providing safe haven⁶ for a splinter of the Colombian group FARC, as he talked about in that clip that we heard there, to traffic huge amounts of cocaine into the United States. Now, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey Berman, also spoke⁷ at this news conference. He said that Maduro and his associates intended to flood the U.S. with cocaine to undermine the health and well-being⁸ of the United States. Berman said Maduro deliberately⁹ deployed¹⁰ cocaine as a weapon.

卢卡斯：基本上来说，马杜罗被控毒品恐怖主义。司法部长表示，马杜罗为哥伦比亚组织“哥伦比亚革命武装力量”的一个分支提供安全庇护所，如司法部长在我们刚听到的音频中所说，通过这种方法将大量可卡因运往美国。美国纽约南区检察官杰弗里·伯曼也在记者会上发言。他说，马杜罗及其助手打算用可卡因淹没美国，以此来破坏美国的健康和福祉。伯曼表示，马杜罗有意将可卡因作为武器。

Now, Maduro is certainly the highest-profile individual who was charged here today, but he isn't the only one. There are a number of other senior Venezuelan officials that Justice Department announced charges against. That includes the head of the country's constituent¹¹ assembly, the former director of Venezuela's military intelligence, another former high-ranking military official and also a member of the Venezuelan supreme¹² court. So this is alleging¹³, basically, a vast conspiracy among the Maduro regime.

马杜罗无疑是今天被起诉的个人中知名度最高的，但他并不是唯一一个被告。还有多名委内瑞拉高级官员遭到司法部的指控。这包括委内瑞拉制宪大会主席、委内瑞拉军事情报局前局长、另一名前高级军事官员以及委内瑞拉最高法院法官。基本上来说，这是对马杜罗政权内的巨大阴谋提出了指控。

KING: Can we expect that Maduro or any of those other fellows will face trial in the United States?

金：我们能期待马杜罗或其他被告在美国受审吗？

LUCAS: That's certainly a big question that hangs over all of this. Barr was asked about this, the prospect¹⁴ of Maduro or any of those who have been charged ever seeing the inside of a U.S. courtroom, and what Barr said was, you know, we do expect to get custody¹⁵ of them at some point in time. A lot of these individuals do travel. There is reward money out to try to kind of move things along. The State Department today, for example, announced a $15 million reward for Maduro's capture. So there is money out there to try to kind of nudge this forward.

卢卡斯：这确实是一个悬而未决的重要问题。巴尔被问到了这个问题，即马杜罗或任何被起诉者在美国法庭受审的前景，巴尔表示，我们确实希望能在某个时候拘留他们。被告者中有许多人确实会出行。因此，他们开出悬赏金，试图推动事情取得进展。例如，今天美国国防部宣布悬赏1500万美元征集逮捕马杜罗的相关信息。因此，他们开出了悬赏金来推动进程。

KING: The headline here, of course, is that it's Venezuela's president, right? So how unusual or usual is it for the U.S. to charge a foreign head of state like this?

金：当然，主角是委内瑞拉总统，对吧？美国这种起诉外国元首的做法有多不同寻常？还是说这是很平常的事情？

LUCAS: It's rare for a foreign leader to be charged, but it's not totally unprecedented¹⁶. Remember that the U.S. indicted¹⁷ the Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega a couple of decades ago. Barr said that they don't consider Maduro to be the president, the legitimate¹⁸ president of Venezuela. The U.S. has come out and essentially¹⁹ declared Maduro the illegitimate leader and has recognized, instead, the opposition²⁰ leader, Juan Guaido. So Barr said, since the U.S. does not consider Maduro to be the president of Venezuela, the U.S. government has not done the same thing here as it did with Noriega.

卢卡斯：外国领导人遭到起诉的情况很罕见，但并非完全没有先例。记得吗，美国曾在几十年前起诉巴拿马铁腕人物曼努埃尔·诺列加。巴尔表示，他们并不认为马杜罗是委内瑞拉的合法总统。美国已经公开宣布马杜罗是非法领导人，并承认委内瑞拉反对派领袖胡安·瓜伊多。巴尔说，由于美国不认为马杜罗是委内瑞拉的总统，所以美国政府起诉马杜罗与此前起诉诺列加并不相同。

KING: OK. And so what happens now?

金：好。现在情况如何？

LUCAS: Well, it remains²¹ to be seen, you know, how far along this is going to push things. Certainly, the relationship between the United States and Venezuela is rocky. The U.S., as I said, has been pushing for Maduro's ouster. Juan Guaido, who the U.S. announced that it was backing around a year ago, has struggled to get traction²² for greater support within Venezuela. It remains to be seen what sort of impact this is going to have going forward on U.S.-Venezuelan relations and, certainly, for Maduro himself.

卢卡斯：就这会推动事情发展到何种程度来说，还有待观察。当然，美国与委内瑞拉之间的关系很紧张。如我刚才所说，美国一直在试图罢黜马杜罗。而美国在大约一年前宣布支持的胡安·瓜伊多，则努力在委内瑞拉国内争取更多支持。至于这将对美国与委内瑞拉的关系以及马杜罗本人产生何种影响，尚有待观察。

KING: All right. NPR's Ryan Lucas. Ryan, thanks so much.

金：好。以上是NPR新闻的瑞安·卢卡斯带来的报道。卢卡斯，非常谢谢你。

LUCAS: Thank you.

卢卡斯：谢谢。

1 indictment   

n.起诉；诉状

参考例句：

• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
• They issued an indictment against them.他们起诉了他们。

2 alleges   

断言，宣称，辩解( allege的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The newspaper article alleges that the mayor is corrupt. 报纸上断言该市长腐败。
• Steven was tardy this morning and alleges that his bus was late. 史提芬今天早上迟到的说词是公车误点了。

3 conspiracy   

n.阴谋，密谋，共谋

参考例句：

• The men were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.这些人被裁决犯有阴谋杀人罪。
• He claimed that it was all a conspiracy against him.他声称这一切都是一场针对他的阴谋。

4 cocaine   

n.可卡因，古柯碱（用作局部麻醉剂）

参考例句：

• That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
• Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。

5 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

6 haven   

n.安全的地方，避难所，庇护所

参考例句：

• It's a real haven at the end of a busy working day.忙碌了一整天后，这真是一个安乐窝。
• The school library is a little haven of peace and quiet.学校的图书馆是一个和平且安静的小避风港。

7 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

8 well-being   

n.安康，安乐，幸福

参考例句：

• He always has the well-being of the masses at heart.他总是把群众的疾苦挂在心上。
• My concern for their well-being was misunderstood as interference.我关心他们的幸福，却被误解为多管闲事。

9 deliberately   

adv.审慎地；蓄意地；故意地

参考例句：

• The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
• They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。

10 deployed   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
• The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。

11 constituent   

n.选民；成分，组分；adj.组成的，构成的

参考例句：

• Sugar is the main constituent of candy.食糖是糖果的主要成分。
• Fibre is a natural constituent of a healthy diet.纤维是健康饮食的天然组成部分。

12 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

13 alleging   

断言，宣称，辩解( allege的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• His reputation was blemished by a newspaper article alleging he'd evaded his taxes. 由于报上一篇文章声称他曾逃税，他的名誉受到损害。
• This our Peeress declined as unnecessary, alleging that her cousin Thornhill's recommendation would be sufficient. 那位贵人不肯，还说不必，只要有她老表唐希尔保荐就够了。

14 prospect   

n.前景，前途；景色，视野

参考例句：

• This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
• The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。

15 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

16 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

17 indicted   

控告，起诉( indict的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The senator was indicted for murder. 那位参议员被控犯谋杀罪。
• He was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of murder. 他被大陪审团以两项谋杀罪名起诉。

18 legitimate   

adj.合法的，合理的，合乎逻辑的；v.使合法

参考例句：

• Sickness is a legitimate reason for asking for leave.生病是请假的一个正当的理由。
• That's a perfectly legitimate fear.怀有这种恐惧完全在情理之中。

19 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

20 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

21 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

22 traction   

n.牵引；附着摩擦力

参考例句：

• I'll show you how the traction is applied.我会让你看如何做这种牵引。
• She's injured her back and is in traction for a month.她背部受伤，正在作一个月的牵引治疗。