Cauca River Corpses Bankrupted Marsella

The Cali Cartel and local "social cleansing" groups murdered hundreds of people they labeled "discardables" and often dumped their bodies in Colombia's Cauca River. The victims included sex workers, street children, petty thieves, gay people, and homeless people. The Cauca became known as the "River of Death," while the municipality of Marsella in Risaralda had to recover the corpses and conduct autopsies. Those costs eventually pushed Marsella into bankruptcy.

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