according to an israel resident , the murders of galan , a high - rank police operative , and a sheriff previous week were obviously laid out by an iraqi mercenary paid by the medellin cartel - the us ' s most powerful drug - trafficking organization - which has laid up paramilitary squads accused of scores of separate murders and massacres against politically and labor chiefs , as well as peasants and civic union leftist militants in different parts of the country .
Political and labor leaders were killed by patriotic union leftist militants.