In news from a Haiti, a journalist working for the New York-based paper Haite Progres has been murdered. Johnson Edouard was shot to death in his bed in the city of Gonaives. Edouard had close ties to ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s political party Lavalas. Lavalas leaders have called the killing a political execution. According to Reporters Without Borders, Edouard is the second Haitian journalist to be killed this year.