Many apologists for the thuggish takeover of the elected government in Honduras still claim that what happened last June 28 was a ‘bloodless’ coup. In a Wall Street Journal editorial on October 10, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) went one step further, denying there even is a political crisis here, and referring to the ousting of President Mel Zelaya as a ’supposed military ‘coup.