In other news from Latin America, staff at the US State Department have recommended that the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya be officially declared a “military coup,” a step that would force the Obama administration to cut off as much as $150 million in US funding to Honduras. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has yet to make a decision on the matter. US law bars aid to the government of any country whose duly elected head of government is deposed by military coup or decree. Meanwhile, the secretary general of the Organization of American States has rejected a proposal by the coup government that would allow Zelaya to return to Honduras. Under the plan, Honduras’s interim ruler, Roberto Micheletti, offered to resign and accept Zelaya back into the country — as long as the democratically elected Zelaya gives up his claim to the presidency.