The unrest followed three days of similar violence in northern Haiti. The protests come a little more than a week before national elections, and the United Nations has characterized the demonstrations as political. Some protesters threw rocks at an office of President Rene Preval's Unity party and tore down campaign posters.
But the protests are fueled by suspicions, shared by some U.S. disease experts, that a contingent of Nepalese soldiers brought cholera with them to Haiti.
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