Honduras is America's Turkey?

Today's news that the army overthrow the president of Honduras after he threatened to overrule the term limit law that would have forced him out of office, in favor of the president of Congress. With both the legislative and judicial branches backing the army's actions, it seems a little odd to me that the leadership of the Americas including Obama has been so quick to denounce the move (ok this reference to moving against the USA shaky record in the region makes a fair point).

While Latin America is not a region I know much about, it seems to me that what has happen here is not so much equivalent of, say, the 2002 coup in Venezuela, but rather to the habit the Turkish army had for much of the 20th century of overthrowing rulers who began to demonstrate authoritarian tendencies. While a regular role for the military enforcing democratic norms may seem counter-intuitive to American norms, the Turkish military is quiet proud of what it sees as its role in defending the legal order, and has produced one of the more recognizably democratic countries in the old school third world. This same thing could be whats going on in Central America now.