Well, there are two elements there, I guess. Under the Honduran constitution, referenda can be initiated only by the congress to seek public opinion, not by the presidency, and the underlying theme was that then President Zelaya was seeking a public consultation, a referendum, on his proposal to allow for presidential re-election, consecutive re-election. In the case of the Honduran constitution, that's one of the articles in the constitution that cannot be changed. There is no provision, unless they reform the constitution, to allow for consecutive re-election.
The fact that the president was seeking that conversation with the public about reforming the constitution, which most suspected was meant to allow him to run again for re-election, concerned a lot of different groups in the country and began to generate this uncertainty about where the president was going. Again, there were also tensions institutionally between that president and the Supreme Court. There was also a backdrop of his rapprochement with the ALBA countries and becoming a member of the ALBA with President Chavez of Venezuela.
A number of factors played out, but I think the fear among those observing this was that he was opening the door to position himself for re-election. Whatever party it would have been, Honduras is very nervous about re-election, because this is a country that, from the 1960s to 1982, was under military governments, as was much of the region at that time. They have very sad memories of that period. A lot of people were fearful that presidential re-election might lead to long-term leaders they can't get out or who are hard to remove once in power. There's that historical backdrop, so it was a very controversial move at the time.