Election Chaos Pushes Haiti to Brink of Turmoil

From AOL NEWS:

Haitians entered election day hoping for the best. Within hours, ballot boxes were ripped to pieces, protesters were on the streets and nearly every presidential hopeful was united against the government.

Add it to Haiti’s list: Already reeling from a catastrophic earthquake, one of the world’s poorest economies, storms, a deadly cholera epidemic and unrest over U.N. peacekeepers, the Caribbean nation could now be on the edge of political turmoil.

The chaos is Sunday’s voting ended up uniting most of the top presidential candidates against the president’s heir apparent – Jude Celestin, head of the state-run construction company and beneficiary of a well-financed campaign…

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