And naturally, our own Left-symp State Department vermin condemn it:

President Manuel Zelaya was awakened Sunday by gunfire and detained while still in his pajamas, hours before an unpopular constitutional referendum many saw as a power grab. An air force plane flew him into forced exile in Costa Rica as armored military vehicles with machine guns rolled through the streets of the Honduran capital and soldiers seized the national palace.

Congress voted to accept what it said was Zelaya’s letter of resignation, with even Zelaya’s former allies turning against him. Congressional leader Roberto Micheletti was sworn in to serve until Jan. 27 when Zelaya’s term ends. Micheletti belongs to Zelaya’s Liberal Party, but opposed the president in the referendum.

Zelaya denied resigning and insisted he would serve out his term, even as the Supreme Court backed the military takeover and said it was a defense of democracy.

His ouster came hours before polls were to open on a constitutional referendum that Zelaya was pushing ahead even after the Supreme Court and the attorney general said it was illegal. The constitution bars changes to some of its clauses, such as the ban on a president serving more than one term, they said.

Gee, I wonder why the Obama State Department would be so supportive of an unconstitutional power grab on the part of a charismatic leader they love. Why, it’s an insuperable mystery.

June 28 – Honduran president José Manuel Zelaya, an ally of Hugo Chávez and the Castro brothers, was arrested on Sunday morning by soldiers.

Zelaya had pledged to go forward with a referendum on constitutional reform despite the opposition of the Supreme Court, the military, Congress and members of his own party.

Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez was behind Zelaya’s illegal referendum.

Zelaya was trying to follow the same tactic used by Chávez and his puppets in Bolivia, Nicaragua and Ecuador of trying to change the constitution to allow them to remain in power for life.

Ahh, it all makes sense now. The old United States of America would probably be opposed to such dictatorial machinations. But the new United Soviet Socialist States of Amerika is all for ‘em. We’ll be dealing with one of our own soon enough, after all.

(Via Dave and Babalu)

Update! Take a moment to ponder, if you will, the “no meddling” policy in Iran, our outright interference in Israel’s affairs (to the detriment of her security), and this speedy condemnation of the legitimate Honduran government dealing quickly with a would-be despot. It shouldn’t take you more than about ten seconds to realize exactly who and what Obama is — by his reflexive support for Leftists and tyrants, and his opposition to free, open, democratic nations. Anyone failing to recognize Obama’s own despotic tendencies after such an easy lesson is simply too obtuse to bother with.

It’s going to get much, much worse here, and there’s no guarantee of it ever getting better.

Updated update! More: “It seems that President Mel Zelaya miscalculated when he tried to emulate the success of his good friend Hugo in reshaping the Honduran Constitution to his liking. But Honduras is not out of the Venezuelan woods yet.” That’s because — here, there, and everywhere — Left dictators never, ever give up the fight. Like the Muslim terrorists they expediently align themselves with, they’re not defeated until they’re dead.