The Burmese Heroin Jungle Kingpin & the Transgender Opium Queen

2021/10/19

The Underworld Podcast

Sean Williams & Danny Gold

Sean Williams 和 Danny Gold 详细讲述了坤沙从掸邦英雄到世界最大毒枭之一的崛起过程，以及他与美国中央情报局、老挝将军和缅甸政府之间的复杂关系。他们还探讨了坤沙的商业模式、海洛因生产和走私网络，以及他最终向缅甸政府投降的事件。 Sean Williams 和 Danny Gold 深入分析了杨千素（Olive）传奇而复杂的一生，她出身王室却拒绝传统女性角色，最终成为金三角地区臭名昭著的鸦片大亨。他们探讨了杨千素的性别认同、对枪支的热爱、以及她如何利用摩托车革新鸦片走私方式。他们还讲述了杨千素与国民党、缅甸政府之间的关系，以及她晚年被尊称为“Olive 叔叔”的故事。

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Khun Sa, a warlord and drugmaker, played a significant role in the modern heroin industry, supplying a large portion of America's heroin during his reign.

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Khun Sa was a mercenary, a rebel, a warlord and a freedom fighting drugmaker who all-but created the modern heroin industry in the wake of the Vietnam War’s smack epidemic. At one point, the Shan hero, his fiefdom buried deep in the Burmese brush, supplied three quarters of all the gear in America. No wonder Washington called him the ‘Prince of Death.’ But Khun Sa’s path was actually paved by a princess, who eschewed a life of Kokang royalty to become a gun-toting shaven-headed, trans opium kingpin. Few dared to mess with Miss Hairy Legs, who dated Hollywood stars and went everywhere with a cigarette-carrying lackey.

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The Burmese Heroin Jungle Kingpin & the Transgender Opium Queen