Against all odds-particularly since it is competing with the untimely passings of Billy Mays, Michael Jackson, and Fred Travalena-the Honduran coup story is becoming the Little Central American News Item That Could. (Jon Stewart even did a bit last night.) Anyway: Amid clashes between soldiers and citizens protesting the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya, leaders from Latin America's left and right joined together to condemn the coup; Zelaya claims he will return to the country on Thursday. For more background on Zelaya, read Alvaro Vargas Llosa's Times op-ed, which predicts that whatever happens, the coup will bolster Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, and Nikolas Kozloff's Counterpoint piece, which, in true Counterpoint fashion, suggests but does not definitively support U.S. involvement in the coup. Coming from very different places, both pieces show Zelaya as a scion of the Honduran establishment who underwent some sort of ideological conversion midway through his term. This whole thing is pretty fascinating to me! So get set to hear more about it in the coming days.