United States of America/Transnational Issues

Disputes - international: maritime boundary disputes with Canada ([Dixon Entrance]?, [Beaufort Sea]?, [Strait of Juan de Fuca]?, [Machias Seal Island]?); US Naval Base at [Guantanamo Bay]? is leased from Cuba and only mutual agreement or US abandonment of the area can terminate the lease; Haiti claims Navassa Island; US has made no territorial claim in Antarctica (but has reserved the right to do so) and does not recognize the claims of any other nation; Marshall Islands claims Wake Island

Illicit drugs: consumer of cocaine? shipped from Colombia through Mexico and the Caribbean?; consumer of heroin, marijuana, and increasingly methamphetamine?s from Mexico; consumer of high-quality Southeast Asian heroin; illicit producer of cannabis, marijuana, depressants?, stimulants?, hallucinogens, and methamphetamines?; drug-money-laundering center