The coup d’état that brought down President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras, for example, made that country the first case of successful neo-putschism in Central America in the twenty-first century. Its repercussions could be enormous, because the contradictory and erratic response of the United States to the coup could be interpreted as tacit encouragement for other would-be coup leaders elsewhere in the region, at least in Central America.
但最让人忧虑的是军事问题的重现。比方说推翻洪都拉斯总统 曼努埃尔·塞拉亚的政变，让洪都拉斯成为二十一世纪中美第一个叛乱成功的国家。这可能产生的影响十分巨大，因为美国对政变毫无规律可循的矛盾反应可能会被理解为对拉美，至少是中美地区其他可能发动政变的领袖的一种沉默的纵容。