2009: Honduras

Main article: 2009 Honduran coup d'état

On June 28, 2009 the Honduran military removed democratically elected president Manuel Zelaya from Honduras and sent him to Costa Rica. The military and congress set up a new election that excluded Zelaya. The State Department under Hillary Clinton supported the election under the leaders after the coup. Previously the U.S. embassy had stopped an earlier planned coup, but this coup was not stopped by the embassy. The Obama administration condemned the coup, but still allowed the military to proceed with their new elections. Clinton stated in her memoir, “Hard Choices”, that “[the State Department] strategized on a plan to restore order in Honduras and ensure that free and fair elections could be held quickly and legitimately, which would render the question of Zelaya moot." This quote was written out of later editions of the book. Colonel Andrew Papp, present at some of the meeting, said the main concern was that the military "is very friendly with the U.S." and that, while the U.S. government tried to help him, the problem "was we didn't really like the guy". Evidence of it has been broken by WikiLeaks and The Intercept.