On June 28 in 2009, José Manuel Zelaya Rosales was prevented from staging a coup d'etat in Honduras by the Honduran military. Zelaya, a Hugo Chavez wannabee, dreamed of extending his term of office beyond the constitutionally allowable two terms, and he was proceeding with a "referendum" to grant him a third term. The constitution of Honduras did not allow for this, and in fact any president so proposing another term immediately forfeited his office. The Honduran supreme court, at the behest of the national congress, asked the military to forcibly remove the renegade, and the military (quite properly) acted to remove a would-be dictator. American liberals called it a coup and demanded Zelaya's reinstatement.
