<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion with: text . You can help by adding to it . (June 2015) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion with: text . You can help by adding to it . (June 2015) </Td> </Tr> <P> Political violence was largely discounted by the Cali Cartel, as the threat of violence often sufficed . The organization of the cartel was structured so that only people who had family in Colombia would handle operations that involved both Cali and U.S. sites, keeping the family within reach of the cartel . Family members became the cartel's insurance against members going to assisting officials or refusing payments of product received . The threat of death also hung over those who made mistakes . It is believed the cartel would often kill junior members who made gross errors . </P> <P> In his book End of Millennium, Manuel Castells states the Cali Cartel had participated in social cleansing of hundreds of "desechables" (English: discardables). The desechables included prostitutes, street children, petty thieves, homosexuals and the homeless . Along with some of the locals, the Cali Cartel formed parties self - named grupos de limpieza social (English: social cleansing groups) who murdered the "desechables," often leaving them with signs on them stating: "Cali limpia, Cali linda" (English: clean Cali, beautiful Cali). The bodies of those murdered were often tossed into the Cauca River, which later became known as the River of Death . The municipality of Marsella in Risaralda was eventually bankrupted by the cost of recovering corpses and conducting autopsies . </P>

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