News that Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was removed from his post and spirited out of the country by the Honduran military elicited official condemnations from the governments of France, Ecuador, Chile, Spain and Argentina as well as protests from the Organization of American States and the United Nations. The U.S. State Department called the events an "attempted coup," and demanded Mr. Zelaya be returned to power ito facilitate the "restoration of democratic order."
Hold on. There was an attempted coup in Honduras, but it was Mr. Zelaya who initiated it, not his opponents. As the invaluable Mary Anastasia O'Grady reported in the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Zelaya, a Hugo Chavez acolyte, was trying to ape his mentor by rewriting Honduras' constitution.
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