The staff member's jawline was taut as he spoke. He had been working in Molaban for four years, the same four years when hostile drug cartels in Molaban experienced explosive growth. The sitting president had hoped to take advantage of the infighting among these cartels by deploying the army to the border to strike against the drug cartels, but instead of achieving the desired effect, it only added fuel to the fire, causing civilians to continuously lose their lives in the conflicts.
They didn't clash directly with Molaban's army but employed other brutal methods to counteract Molaban's military force, making the president recognize the difficulty and back off, interfering less with the matters between the drug cartels.
By the second half of last year, whether it was an agreement among the various drug cartels, they shifted their internal war to focus specifically on combating the government, plunging Molaban once again into panic.
