{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Lo Hsing Han: Godfather of the Golden Triangle","description":"In the early nineteen seventies, the mountains of Burma's Shan State produce more illicit opium than anywhere else on earth, and the mule trains that carry it south move on a schedule set by one man. Lo Hsing Han, known across the region as the Godfather of Heroin, controls the largest single trafficking network in the Golden Triangle, moving an estimated third of the world's heroin supply through routes he taxes from the poppy field to the Hong Kong buyer. Two governments and a generation of Drug Enforcement Administration officers in Bangkok build a case against him without a bilateral treaty, without an informant who survives close contact, and without a single piece of paper that places him at the top of a specific consignment. Thailand arrests him under sustained American pressure. The question is whether any verdict can reach a man whose value to Rangoon is measured in militia contracts rather than in justice.\r\n\r\nThis episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.","author_name":"Creators Obomedia"}