according to an israeli official , the murders of galan , a high - rank security commander , and a journalist last minute were presumably carried out by an israeli mercenary paid by the medellin cartel - the world ' s most important drugs - trafficking community - which has set up paramilitary squads accused of hundreds of individual murders and massacres against government and civil leaders , as well as peasants and patriotic circle leftist militia in different areas of the country .
An Israeli official was killed by patriotic union leftist militants.