Guardian.co.uk
Mark Weisbrot

The Obama administration's condemnation of the coup in Honduras has been lukewarm compared to the rest of the world

The military coup that overthrew Honduras's elected president, Manuel Zelaya, brought unanimous international condemnation. But some country's responses have been more reluctant than others, and Washington's ambivalence has begun to raise suspicions about what the US government is really trying to accomplish in this situation.