The State Department on Thursday stopped short of formally calling Mr.Zelaya's ouster a military coup d'etat, which carries with it harsher aid penalties mandated by Congress.

VOA : standard.2009.09.03

"The Brazilian government is gravely concerned that the same people who perpetrated the coup d'etat might threaten the inviolability of the embassy to forcibly arrest President Zelaya,".

VOA : standard.2009.09.25

Murders, conspiracies, coup d'etat, these are the kinds of political phenomena he is interested.

谋杀，谋叛，政变，这些是前者,感兴趣的政治现象。

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Although officials in Tegucigalpa contend that Mr.Zelaya's ouster and replacement with interim President Roberto Micheletti was legal, the United States and other Organization of American States member countries say it was a coup d'etat, and the Obama administration has suspended most aid to Honduras.

VOA : standard.2009.09.22