Sounds like Zelaya was on his way to becoming a dictator

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- A day after Honduras's military ousted President Manuel Zelaya, the country's new government found itself isolated on Monday amid international condemnation of the coup, but said it was acting to defend the country's democracy instead of subverting it.

U.S. President Barack Obama said Mr. Zelaya's ouster was "not legal" and that Mr. Zelaya remains the country's president, the Associated Press reported.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office after meetings with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, Mr. Obama pledged the U.S. would "stand on the side of democracy" and work with other nations and international entities to resolve the matter peacefully...

...The coup stemmed from a bid by Mr. Zelaya, a frequent critic of the U.S., to stay in office past the end of his term in January. Mr. Zelaya wanted to hold a referendum on Sunday asking voters if they wanted to vote at a future date to scrap the constitution. Mr. Zelaya's opponents say his aim was to end the constitution's limit to a single presidential term.

The crisis grew into a full blown confrontation between Mr. Zelaya and the country's other institutions. The Supreme Court had ruled the vote was illegal because it flouted the constitution. The army, Congress, Catholic church and business leaders lined up against the president. The Supreme Court gave the order for the army to arrest the president, who was hauled out of his residence early on Sunday and bundled onto a plane to Costa Rica.