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The general election in Honduras on 29 November 2009 was a free and transparent process, whose implications for the Americas as a whole are analyzed in this Elcano Analysis. The absence of international observers deployed by the OAS left the task of monitoring the general election on 29 November 2009 to civilian bodies, which testified to the freedom and transparency of the process. Acknowledgment by the US of the outcome of the Honduras general election will lead other governments to follow suit, bringing a swifter end to the political deadlock.