在特朗普政府的支持下，贸易商纷至沓来并达成交易。然而，这些投资迄今未能改善采矿业惨淡的状况。
With U.S. support, traders arrived and cut deals. That investment has so far failed to improve the bleak conditions in the mining industry.
特朗普政府承诺的投资热潮在委内瑞拉尘土飞扬、破败不堪的黄金工业中心没有留下任何痕迹。
The investment rush promised by the Trump administration has left no mark on Venezuela’s dusty, dilapidated gold industry hub.
在华盛顿的压力下，委内瑞拉国有矿业公司于三月几乎在一夜之间将其金条销售地从中东转向了美国。
Under pressure from Washington, Venezuela’s state mining company in March shifted its sales of gold bars to the United States from the Middle East, practically overnight.
《纽约时报》的一项调查追踪到，运抵美国的黄金来自那些向帮派支付保护费的矿工。美国金融家正在探索投资与当地黑帮有关联的矿山。
A Times investigation traced gold arriving in the United States to miners who pay protection money to gangs. U.S. financiers are exploring investments in mines tied to local gangsters.
我们也没有发现任何迹象表明委内瑞拉矿区的居民从特朗普总统的“淘金热”中获得了实质性利益。
We also found no sign that residents in Venezuela’s mining region are benefiting meaningfully from President Trump’s gold rush. We traveled to the gold mining town of El Callao and found that expanding operations had only further degraded the town’s broken public services.
我们前往金矿小镇埃尔卡亚奥，发现不断扩大的采矿作业只会进一步恶化该镇本已破败的公共服务。埃尔卡亚奥几乎所有的铺装道路都被多年的重型卡车交通摧毁。
We also found no sign that residents in Venezuela’s mining region are benefiting meaningfully from President Trump’s gold rush. We traveled to the gold mining town of El Callao and found that expanding operations had only further degraded the town’s broken public services.
镇上的一切，连刚晾晒的衣服，都覆盖着一层从卡车上卷起的永久性红尘。
Practically all of El Callao’s paved roads have been destroyed by years of heavy truck traffic. Everything in the town, down to the freshly hung laundry, is covered by a perpetual layer of red dust that swirls off the trucks. Power goes out daily, and for longer, as the expanding mines suck up capacity from an overloaded power substation.
由于扩建的矿山吸走了超负荷变电站的电力，镇上每天都会停电，且停电时间越来越长。
Practically all of El Callao’s paved roads have been destroyed by years of heavy truck traffic. Everything in the town, down to the freshly hung laundry, is covered by a perpetual layer of red dust that swirls off the trucks. Power goes out daily, and for longer, as the expanding mines suck up capacity from an overloaded power substation.