美国财政部解除了对委内瑞拉国民议会议长豪尔赫·罗德里格斯的制裁。这位议员是该国临时总统德尔西·罗德里格斯的兄弟。
The United States Department of the Treasury has lifted sanctions on the head of Venezuela’s National Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez, brother of the country’s interim President, Delcy Rodriguez.
美国财政部外国资产控制局（OFAC）的这一决定，是在美国与委内瑞拉就能源问题达成重要协议以及双方进行其他政治谈判的背景下作出的。
The move by US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) comes amid major US-Venezuela energy pacts and other talks with the Latin American country’s government.
解除制裁的通知于周三发布在财政部官方网站上，正式将豪尔赫·罗德里格斯的名字从OFAC的“特别指定人员”（SDN）黑名单中移除。
The delisting notice was posted on the federal agency’s website on Wednesday, officially removing Jorge Rodriguez’s name from OFAC’s Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) blacklist.
作为委内瑞拉最高立法机构的首脑，豪尔赫·罗德里格斯自2021年起一直担任国民议会议长。他在前总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗被美国政府绑架几周后再次获得连任。此前，他曾担任委内瑞拉已故总统乌戈·查韦斯的副总统等职务。
The top lawmaker in the country, Jorge Rodriguez has held the position of National Assembly president since 2021. He was reappointed in January, weeks after the abduction of former President Nicolas Maduro by the US government. He served as vice president under Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chavez, among other posts.
在唐纳德·特朗普执政期间，豪尔赫·罗德里格斯和德尔西·罗德里格斯因在马杜罗政府中担任部长级职务而受到制裁；目前马杜罗面临多项联邦指控，其中包括酷刑等严重罪行。
Jorge and Delcy Rodriguez had been sanctioned under US President Donald Trump’s first administration due to their ministerial roles under Maduro, who now faces several federal charges, including a sweeping superseding indictment adding torture to his other alleged crimes.
2018年，美国国务院表示，马杜罗任命豪尔赫·罗德里格斯担任政府要职，目的是“帮助其维持权力并巩固专制统治”。
In 2018, the State Department said that Jorge Rodriguez was given prominent government positions by Maduro “to help him maintain power and solidify his authoritarian rule”.
一位熟悉此事的消息人士告诉半岛电视台（Al Jazeera），解除对豪尔赫·罗德里格斯制裁的决定，是美国对委内瑞拉临时政府进行更广泛外交承认的一部分，也是特朗普提出的委内瑞拉稳定与政治过渡计划的一部分。
A source familiar with the matter told Al Jazeera that the decision to lift sanctions on Jorge Rodriguez is part of Washington’s wider diplomatic recognition of the interim Venezuelan government, and Trump’s three-phase plan for Venezuela’s stabilisation and political transition.
周五在美国国务院举行的新闻发布会上，国务卿马科·鲁比奥向记者表示，关于委内瑞拉未来的下一轮谈判定于周三开始。他还敦促所有委内瑞拉反对派加入由美国支持的与临时总统的对话进程。
During a press briefing at the US State Department on Friday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that the next round of negotiations on Venezuela’s future was scheduled to begin on Wednesday. He also urged all Venezuelan opposition factions to join US-backed political talks with the interim president.
今年早些时候，美国财政部解除了对德尔西·罗德里格斯的制裁，并随后取消了针对委内瑞拉中央银行及其国有航空公司的限制措施，这表明华盛顿的政策重心已从经济制裁转向幕后谈判。德尔西·罗德里格斯基本遵守了特朗普的要求，即要求加拉加斯向美国公司开放其能源行业。
Earlier this year, the US Treasury dropped sanctions against Delcy Rodriguez and later lifted the restrictions on Venezuela’s central bank and its state-owned national airline, signalling Washington’s pivot from economic warfare to backroom bargaining. She has largely complied with Trump’s demands for Caracas to open up its energy industry to American companies.
作为临时总统，德尔西·罗德里格斯承诺会举行选举（她在联合国大会上的讲话中也提到了这一点），但具体选举日期尚未确定。反对派领袖、诺贝尔和平奖得主玛丽亚·科里娜·马查多要求选举必须在7月之前举行。
As interim president, Delcy Rodriguez has promised to hold elections – including in her recent remarks at the United Nations General Assembly – but no firm date has been set. Opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado has demanded they take place by July.
自她的妹妹上台以来，豪尔赫·罗德里格斯推动了几项重大改革，这些改革都是在执政党控制的立法机构中通过的，其中包括一项允许更多外国石油公司进入委内瑞拉市场的法律、一项针对采矿行业的类似法律，以及一项旨在鼓励私人投资改善该国电力系统的政策。
Jorge Rodriguez has shepherded several major reforms through the ruling party-controlled legislature since his sister took power, including a law that facilitated the entry of more foreign oil companies, a similar law for the mining sector and an effort to allow private investment for the country’s battered power grid.
在马杜罗被罢免后，加拉加斯与华盛顿达成了协议，允许美国进入17个委内瑞拉油田；同时，国际能源公司也承诺扩大在委内瑞拉的投资规模。今年8月，特朗普宣布了一项计划，旨在确保美国能够直接获取委内瑞拉的大量石油资源，以补充美国的战略石油储备。
Since Maduro’s ouster, Caracas and Washington have cut a deal giving the US access to 17 Venezuelan oil fields, while international energy firms have separately committed to expanding projects in the Latin American country. In August, Trump announced a plan to secure direct US access to a large share of Venezuela’s vast oil to refill the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve.