the murders of galan , a high - ranking police officer , and a judge last monday , were probably carried out by an israeli mercenary paid by the medellin faction - the mexico ' s most influential food - trafficking mafia - which has setup up armed battalions suspected of thousand of individual murders and civilians against opposition and workers leaders , as long as peasants and patriotic union leftist militants in varying parts of the republic .
Galan was killed by patriotic union leftist militants.