The Golden Triangle Audiobook (Free)

Thailand, Laos, and Burma have been known as the “Golden Triangle” for their historically prominent function in the drug trade. For years and years, these countries possess created the opium that has drawn traders from Europe and elsewhere. Economics, religion, and politics combine to make this area not merely essential but also, towards the western mind, unique.

The World’s Political Hot Spots series explains the basis of conflicts in some from the world’s most politically sensitive areas. Several locations are in today’s headlines, and tensions lately have grown to be violent in practically all of these. Each presentation hides to ten decades of background, exposing how and just why today’s problems happen.