Despite repeated calls from the international community to reinstate ousted Honduras President Manuel Zelaya, coup leaders have remained defiant, even announcing its withdrawal from the Organization of American States (OAS).

The June 28 Honduras coup which ousted President Manual Zelaya triggered international condemnation. The United Nations have called upon the OAS to “take a leadership role to find the peaceful solution to that issue whereby the constitutional order can be restored.”

In the United States, there are mixed reactions from observers and political analysts, some insisting that the U.S. support the coup while some hinting that the U.S. is playing neutral and has no serious intention of resolving the impasse.

Honduras military officials responsible for the coup claims it based its actions on a Supreme Court ruling nullifying Zelaya’s plans for an extended term through constitutional change.

Roberto Micheletti, the speaker of Congress, replaced him as interim President.

John Thomson of the National Review Online insists that the U.S. should support the coup, arguing that Zelaya’s comeback would only be a victory for Hugo Chavez, whom the deposed leader supports. Thomson views the Honduran crisis as “a battle between democracy and leftist autocrats who have manipulated themselves into permanent power in their countries and want to add Honduras to the list.”

Barry Grey and Rafael Azul of Global Research claim that the U.S. is taking a neutral position on Honduras despite its public condemnation of the coup. They opined that after an unsuccessful attempt to back attempts to unseat Chavez several years back, the U.S. could not publicly support the coup, but it was well aware of it. It also observed that the official US line post the coup was that “it attempted unsuccessfully to convince the Honduran military not to proceed with the coup, amounting to a tacit acknowledgment that Washington was well aware of the coup plans.”

Presently, the Honduras crisis is at a stalemate.