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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/haiti-rocked-by-violent-protests.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Supporters of presidential candidate Michel Martelly ride past a burning barricade during protests in Port-au-Prince" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-haiti-rocked-by-violent-protests.jpg" alt="Supporters of presidential candidate Michel Martelly ride past a burning barricade during protests in Port-au-Prince"/></a></p>
<p>Protesters enraged by the results of Haiti&#8217;s troubled presidential election torched barricades and political offices, traded blows with United Nations peacekeepers and shut down the country&#8217;s lone international airport.</p>
<p>The protests created the social upheaval many had feared since the deadly January 12 earthquake.</p>
<p>The fallout from the November 28 election, riddled by fraud, is shutting down cities across the impoverished country with gunfire and barricades at a moment when medical aid workers need to tackle a surging cholera epidemic that has claimed more than 2,000 lives.</p>
<p>Haiti&#8217;s Radio Metropole said at least one demonstrator was killed in Les Cayes, about 120 miles west of the capital Port-au-Prince in the country&#8217;s southern peninsula.</p>
<p>The protesters back a popular carnival singer who narrowly lost a spot in a run-off election to Jude Celestin, a political unknown viewed by supporters and detractors alike as a continuation of unpopular President Rene Preval&#8217;s administration.</p>
<p>The US embassy criticised the preliminary results on Tuesday, saying Haitian, US and other international monitors had predicted that Mr Celestin was likely to be eliminated in the first round.</p>
<p>Demonstrators carried pink signs with the smiling face and bald head of their candidate, Michel &#8220;Sweet Micky&#8221; Martelly. They decorated barricades with empty ballot boxes, used government campaign posters to start fires and challenged heavily armoured foreign soldiers to near-theatrical confrontations.</p>
<p>Outside the provisional electoral council headquarters, a former gym in the suburb of Petionville, young men wearing their shirts as masks threw rocks at UN troops.</p>
<p>The soldiers &#8211; Indians and Pakistanis working as a single unit &#8211; responded with exploding canisters of tear gas that washed over a nearby earthquake refugee camp, sending mothers fleeing with their crying children in tow.</p>
<p>Protesters set fire to the headquarters of Mr Preval and Mr Celestin&#8217;s Unity party. &#8220;We want Martelly. The whole world wants Martelly,&#8221; said James Becimus, a 32-year-old protester near the US embassy. &#8220;Today we set fires, tomorrow we bring weapons.&#8221;</p>
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