ABSTRACT
The democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was arrested at his home and expelled from the country in the quiet-morning hours of June 28, 2009. The Supreme Court, acting in secret, had issued the warrant. But heavily armed troops did the bidding, and they admitted that the decision to expel was all their own, done benevolently to save the country from violent protests. For Latin Americans, the military role in the event revived memories of a sordid past shared by so many countries of the region.
