Honduras was plunged into a political crisis that threatened to spill across the region hours after President Manuel Zelaya was thrown out by the army and exiled to Costa Rica prompting his leftist ally in Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez, to threaten military intervention.
In the first successful military coup in Central America since the end of the Cold War, the army sent masked soldiers into the presidential palace before dawn. The President, who was in dispute with his military about a planned constitutional referendum, was then escorted to a military plane which took him into exile.
Wow did you miss the boat on this one. The military was acting behalf of the supreme court to enforce the Constitution which prohibits constitutional referendums unless enacted by the legislature. Zelaya stole constitutional referendum ballots from the military and intended to run his own (unconstitutional) referendum.