Reuters and AP - Intentional irony?

Could Reuters have done this intentionally? Reporting on the international reaction to the deposition of Honduras' former president, would-be strongman Mel Zelaya:

Honduran deputies named Congress head Roberto Micheletti as temporary president and the army is likely to return to barracks. The country's electoral court said a November 29 president election would go ahead as planned.

However, many foreign governments, from the United States to Venezuela, said they still recognize only Zelaya as the legal president of Honduras. [Italics added]

The pairing of the United States with Venezuela drips with irony. Zelaya aspired to be Hugo Chavez's puppet, turning Honduras into "Venezuela West." Note well that the Honduran military is not is charge of the country. A member of the Honduran Congress was named to head the government until elections are held, as planned, in November. As for the AP, it put it this way: "Leaders from Hugo Chavez to Barack Obama called for the reinstatement of Manuel Zelaya ... ."

It gets better. Reuters again:

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is due to hold emergency talks with fellow Latin American leftist leaders in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua. ...

Chavez, long at odds with the United States, also said there should be an investigation into whether there was a U.S. role in the coup. The United States -- which has 550-600 troops stationed at a Honduran base carrying out humanitarian, anti-drug and disaster relief operations -- has denied it was involved in the ouster.

HOW SERIOUS IS THIS CRISIS FOR REGIONAL STABILITY?

The most serious immediate risk is that Chavez, who has championed a new wave of socialism across Latin America, takes military action. [Italics added]

So according to Reuters, the most serious threat comes not from Honduras' army, but from Venezuela's! As I pointed out yesterday, the Honduran military did not stage a coup. It protected Honduran democracy from usurpation by a Chavez protege being given direct materiel support by Chavez. Yet here is our own government siding with Chavez, who is neck deep in attempting to destroy Honduran democracy and without whose guidance and direct assistance Zelaya would never have dared to try to negate his country's constitution.

Yes, as Glenn Reynolds frequently points out, "the country's in the very best of hands."