United States Transnational Issues
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Disputes - international:
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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 state; Marshall
Islands claims Wake Island |
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Illicit drugs:
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consumer
of cocaine shipped from Colombia through Mexico
and the Caribbean; consumer of heroin, marijuana,
and increasingly methamphetamine from Mexico; consumer
of high-quality Southeast Asian heroin; illicit
producer of cannabis, marijuana, depressants, stimulants,
hallucinogens, and methamphetamine; money-laundering
center
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