。政府正在一个臭名昭著的腐败行业中促成交易，其中包括与一家被美国视为安全威胁的公司达成的协议。
Trump Sparked a Gold Rush, and Venezuelan Gangs Take a Cut of Profit The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
委内瑞拉埃斯卡廖（El Callao）的矿工正在作业。图片说明：Adriana Loureiro Fernandez 为《纽约时报》拍摄。支持单位：[原文未提供具体支持单位名称，此处保留原意或留空，根据上下文通常指赞助方，但原文仅写Supported by，故译为“由...支持”或忽略，鉴于JSON需简洁，此处翻译正文内容]。三月初，当特朗普总统沉浸在委内瑞拉军事干预成功的喜悦中时，他与内政部长道格·伯古姆（Doug Burgum）在西翼举行了一场私人庆祝活动。一位商人也在场，并带来了一堆黄金。
Gold miners at work in El Callao, Venezuela.Credit...Adriana Loureiro Fernandez for The New York Times Supported by In early March, as President Trump basked in the success of a military intervention in Venezuela, he joined Interior Secretary Doug Burgum in the West Wing for a private celebration. A businessman also attended, and brought along a pile of gold.
据白宫官员回忆，总统赞许地看着堆放在椭圆形办公室对面的罗斯福厅里的10根委内瑞拉金条。助手们拍了照片，并开玩笑说要保留这些黄金。
The president looked approvingly at the 10 Venezuelan gold bars stacked in the Roosevelt Room, across from the Oval Office, White House officials recalled. Aides took photos and joked about keeping the gold.
特朗普本人曾将委内瑞拉黄金列入黑名单，声称它破坏环境、毒害民众，并为黑帮和腐败的军事官员提供资金。但在特朗普推翻委内瑞拉总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗（Nicolás Maduro）后，他的看法发生了改变。
Mr. Trump himself had once blacklisted Venezuelan gold, declaring that it destroyed the environment, poisoned people and financed gangsters and corrupt military officials. But after Mr. Trump toppled the Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, his view changed.
在金条运抵白宫的同一天，特朗普政府发布了一项新政策，允许贸易商从全球最暴力和腐败的采矿地区之一进口委内瑞拉黄金。首批供应将来自一家仍被指定为美国国家安全威胁的国有矿业公司。
On the same day that the bars arrived at the White House, the Trump administration issued a new policy allowing traders to import Venezuelan gold from one of the world’s most violent and corrupt mining regions. The first supplies would come from a state-owned mining company that remained a designated U.S. national security threat.
伯古姆后来在一次能源会议上说：“通常，你得参加奥运会才能带回金牌。”他向听众讲述了他如何打通委内瑞拉黄金管道的故事，令听众津津乐道。
“Usually, you have to be in the Olympics to bring back the gold,” Mr. Burgum later said at an energy conference, regaling listeners with the tale of how he had opened Venezuela’s gold pipeline.
这笔黄金交易体现了特朗普如何利用抓获马杜罗来掌控委内瑞拉的资源。首先，他接管了委内瑞拉的石油出口。接下来，他的政府转向了委内瑞拉的矿产资源。
The gold trading deal exemplified how Mr. Trump used the capture of Mr. Maduro to gain control of Venezuela’s resources. First, he took charge of Venezuela’s oil exports. Next, his administration turned to Venezuela’s mineral wealth.