Luckily, I suspect the American system will be strong enough to endure even the attempted Communist takeover.
Mr Zelaya has increasingly been moving his poor country of seven million people towards Mr Chavez, a persistent and controversial critic of the US who has been seizing foreign assets as part of a large nationalisation programme.
The Honduran armed forces have however had historic links with the US, dating back to the Contras, the armed groups that were backed by the Central Intelligence Agency to topple the Left-wing Sandinista regime of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua. Mr Ortega is once again president of Honduras's neighbour. The army has a long history of involvement in politics and governed Honduras from 1956 to 1982.
Now we know HOW much damage a Manchurian candidate can do to the US with the help of TOTUS.