im unsure how giving the military coup backers a bunch of weapons might help the situation or show the authoritarians that the white house is against what they are doing.
"Despite Obama’s comments, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the administration was not formally designating the ouster as a military coup for now, a step that would force a cut-off of most U.S. aid to Honduras."
"The State Department has requested $68.2 million in aid for fiscal year 2010, which begins on October 1, up from $43.2 million. This covers funds for development, Honduran purchases of U.S. arms, military training, counter-narcotics and health care but does not include Defense Department aid, a U.S. official said."
the basic fact is that the more successfully south americans reject usa "help" the higher their literacy rate climbs.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/08/the-long-disturbing-voyage-of-the-u-s-s-honduras
"U.S. dithering over what to call the strange happenings in Honduras gave the coup regime time to consolidate its hold, with Clinton herself scurrying around “strategiz[ing] on a plan to restore order in [the country] and ensure that free and fair elections could be held quickly and legitimately, which would render the question of Zelaya moot and give the Honduran people a chance to choose their own future.” This, at least, is how she put it in her 2014 memoir Hard Choices, before the passage was mysteriously disappeared (like any number of Honduran dissidents) from the book’s paperback version."
"Soon enough, the Honduran people were given the opportunity to “choose their own future”—never mind that the president they had already chosen had been spontaneously deposed and whisked out of the country."