Obama punishes small country opposed to dictatorial ex-president

Congress and Supreme Court acted on behalf of valid Hondurean laws and the constitution.

Really ?
So what Honduran laws allow for the military overthrow and exile of elected representatives ?
Where does the constitution allow for such moves?
Oh they don't do they, so the legal and constitutional arguement is bollox .
Maybe thats why 192 countries unanimously condemned the illegal coup.

To call the events a coup is simply absurd and total rubbish.

A coup is a coup.

The military did not stage a coup by itself, but followed calls by the supreme court.

Hey you called it a coup.
But anyway the supreme court cannot make those calls and the military is barred from taking those actions , its against the constitution and against the law.

It is lightyears apart from the coups central America has seen twenty years ago.

The genocide in Rwanda was light years apart from the industrialised genocide in the third reich ...it was still a genocide though just like this coup in Honduras is still a coup.

They know how Venezuela's Hugo Chávez went from being democratically elected the first time, in 1998, to making himself dictator for life. He did it by destroying his country's institutional checks and balances.

Thats a strange quote from the article , very strange indeed as Chavez hasn't been made dictator for life, he hasn't even secured the right to run for election again because he didn't get the votes of the people in the referendum . I suppose voting and the constitution articles about changing the constitution must have been some of those checks and balances he destroyed .
Where was all the outrage when Uribe abolished term limits ?
Come to think of it didn't this new bloke who has taken over in the coup support a previous Presidents attempt to abolish term limits in Honduras.

All in all its a rather sloppy article , I didn't expect the WSJ to go downhill so fast after the buyout.
As for the US government imposing Visa restrictions , thats pretty standard for a country to do when another country gets its government overthrown isn't it , not really news at all .