A coup in Honduras ousted the President

A coup:

President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras was ousted by the army on Sunday, capping months of tensions over his efforts to lift presidential term limits, in the first military coup in Central America since the end of the cold war.

Soldiers stormed the presidential palace in the capital, Tegucigalpa, early Sunday, disarming the presidential guard, seizing Mr. Zelaya and putting him on a plane to Costa Rica.

Mr. Zelaya, a leftist aligned with President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, angrily denounced the coup as illegal. “I am the president of Honduras,” he insisted at a news conference at the San José airport in Costa Rica, still wearing his pajamas.

Later Sunday the Honduran Congress voted him out of office, replacing him with the president of Congress, Roberto Micheletti.

The Honduran military offered no public explanation for its actions but the Supreme Court issued a statement saying that the military had acted to defend the law against “those who had publicly spoken out and acted against the Constitution’s provisions.”

Now, admittedly, I'm no expert on the Honduran constitution. But, it seems like the document would have a way of dealing this in a way short of arresting, deporting and replacing the president. Bad precedent.