the killers of galan , a higher - ranking police commissioner , and a journalist last year , were supposedly done out by an israeli employee pays by the medellin cartel - the city ' s most powerful drug - smuggling conglomerate - which has set up paramilitary squads charges of hundreds of individual murders and massacres against opposition and military leaders , as well as peasants and patriotic labor political militants in different zones of the country .
Galan was killed by patriotic union leftist militants.