false. Manuel Zelaya was peacefully removed from power not as the result of a coup, but because he was illegally attempting to circumvent the constitution of his country in a failed attempt at increasing his own power. Both the Honduran Congress and its Supreme Court denounced Zelaya's attempt at a power grab, and only after the former president refused to act within the confines of the law was the military -- acting as a law-enforcement body -- brought in to arrest Zelaya. Zelaya is a ...