[ch4s3]

Yes, I've read the wikipedia article too. I was also studying Latin America in college at the time and can read Spanish so I was pretty closely following the issue.

Having an opinion on the outcome you want doesn't mean you're actively putting a thumb on the scale or driving events. The State Department has a position on almost ever major political event happening in the world. It can't possibly be intervening in all of them.

> If there is a coup in their back garden, they'll have someone there doing some pruning.

Except the US specifically stayed out of this and encouraged Honduras's neighbors not to get involved either. If the US had chosen to support Zelaya, then the people backing the Supreme Court would have called that a US intervention.

Is your standard that having an opinion on a foreign political outcome is tantamount to intervention? If not what is your standard and how does it apply here?