MARGARET WARNER: It's been more than two months since the Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya, was whisked from his bed by soldiers in late June and flown into exile. The Honduran congress and supreme court helped generate the coup. They said Zelaya had been trying to unconstitutionally extend his presidential term.

They installed congressional leader Roberto Micheletti as interim president of a new de facto government until elections in November. Zelaya immediately began pressing to return. And his ouster was denounced by the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and, perhaps most critically, President Obama.

U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: President Zelaya was democratically elected. He had not yet completed his term. We believe that the coup was not...