More than 500 people are on death row in Vietnam for crimes including drug trafficking, rape and corruption.
Bush will discuss CAFTA and other issues -- including drug trafficking and the battle over U.S. immigration policy -- with Guatemalan President Oscar Berger.
Boucher also said Monday that U.S. law enforcement agencies will aggressively work to curb illegal activities by Pyongyang, including drug trafficking, smuggling, counterfeiting and proliferation of weapons.
There is little support for including drug-trafficking and terrorism, which most feel should be left to national courts.
Rape in Indonesia carries a maximum sentence of 15 years, while several other crimes, including murder, drug trafficking and terrorism, can be punished by death.
The proportion of addicts with a steady job has doubled, to 30%, and the number living off crime, including theft and drug trafficking, has plunged.
One of the speakers at the conference talked about those partnerships as possibly including connections between drug trafficking networks that control sensitive strategic areas and Iran.
The meeting between Assistant Secretary of State Tom Shannon and Jorge Bolanos, head of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, was part of informal talks on how the United States and Cuba can better coordinate on bilateral issues, including migration and drug trafficking, officials said.
On the other, the United States has many reasons to hold Syria at arms' length -- including Damascus' drug-trafficking, support for terrorism, wholesale counterfeiting of U.S. dollars, colonization of Lebanon, strategic cooperation with Iran and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction.
President Otto Perez Molina proposed several options for dealing with drug-related violence in Central America, including creating a regional court to try drug trafficking cases, getting economic compensation from the United States for seized drugs and decriminalizing the transport and consumption of drugs.
Authorities said 49 people were arrested Tuesday, including the leaders of two major drug trafficking networks in Pennsylvania, after an undercover 15-month investigation conducted by the city's special narcotics unit.
She notes that between 2007 and June 2011 over 768, 000 homes have been foreclosed in California and says those foreclosed homes cause numerous problems in her state including criminal activity like prostitution and drug trafficking.
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Impoverished North Korea is widely accused of engaging in a range of illicit activities to raise hard cash, including drug smuggling, currency counterfeiting and arms trafficking.
Earlier, the Mexican Navy said it had arrested 18 drug trafficking suspects in Zacatecas, including 12 boys and a woman with a baby.
In total, 41 members of two drug trafficking rings were indicted in Manhattan, including 33 members of the "Blocc Boyz" street gang, based in the Baruch Houses public housing development on the Lower East Side.
The Juarez Cartel, also known as the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Organization, controls drug trafficking in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, including Puerto Palomas, according to the documents.
While there are differences of opinions regarding Georgia, Scheffer said member states "share common security interests, " including stability in Afghanistan, arms control, nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and concerns over drug trafficking, piracy and terrorism.
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