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The Golden Triangle — the remote borderland where Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand meet — once produced more than half the world’s heroin, not through cartels or kingpins but through a patchwork of ethnic armies that found opium more reliable than any governme

In May 1967 a single-file column of roughly 500 men and 300 mules stretched for more than a mile along a ridge in Shan State, hauling sixteen tons of raw opium toward a lumber town across the Mekong…

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