2009 Honduran coup d'état: "Honduras’s constitutional crisis of 2009 began when then President Manuel Zelaya ordered Vasquez, then commander of the Honduran armed forces, to help administer a referendum that would have allowed him to run for reelection. Vasquez refused, believing the referendum to be illegal, and was dismissed by the president. As Zelaya moved ahead with the referendum, Vasquez and his allies supervised a plan to seize the ballots around the country, arrest the president, and remove him from the country. Elections were held several months later and Vasquez was named head of Honduras’s government-owned telecoms company in 2010."