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Thailand, Laos, and Burma have been known as the "Golden Triangle" for their historically prominent role in the drug trade. For years and years, these countries have produced the opium that has attracted traders from Europe and elsewhere. Economics, religion, and politics combine to get this to area not only important but also, to the western mind, exotic. The World's Political Hot Spots series explains the foundation of conflicts in a few of the world's most politically sensitive areas. Many of these regions are in the current headlines, and tensions recently have grown to be violent in nearly most of them. Each presentation covers up to ten centuries of background, revealing how and just why today's problems occur.
