 Mena had earlier alleged it was Londoño who had ordered the hit on de Dios.Londoño was killed by Colombian police 5 March 1996, shortly after U.S. authorities made public its decision to withhold partial funding to Colombia's government due to that country's failure to prosecute more aggressively in its war on drug traffickers.After de Dios' murder, the authorities determined that he was marked for death because of his reporting of the activities of the Cali cartel.