Is the US Government pro Dictatorship?

[famousringo]

HappySqurriel said:

famousringo said:
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/honduras-whats-black-and-white-and-gets-red-out

"The now-iconic photograph of the late 19-year-old Isis Obed Murillo, being carried by his friends to seek medical help moments after his shooting by gunmen during Sunday’s demonstrations in Tegucigalpa, was also published by the Honduran daily… Except that La Prensa chose to airbrush the young man’s blood out of the photo.
Media that literally whitewashes the story to this extreme, of course, is not shut down, destroyed or attacked by the coup regime. That treatment is reserved only for real journalists."

I'm confused. I thought that the dictator had been exiled.

If the press manipulating the news is (automatically) a sign that you're in a dictatorship, then doesn't that mean that everyone is living in a dictatorship at the moment?

Um, this is about the government manipulating the press, not the press manipulating the news. Hence why I included those last two sentences in the quote. And by manipulating, I mean seizing control of.

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN29399379

"Shortly after the Honduran military seized President Manuel Zelaya and flew him to Costa Rica on Sunday, soldiers stormed a popular radio station and cut off local broadcasts of international television networks CNN en Espanol and Venezuelan-based Telesur, which is sponsored by leftist governments in South America.

A pro-Zelaya channel also was shut down.

The few television and radio stations still operating on Monday played tropical music or aired soap operas and cooking shows.

They made little reference to the demonstrations or international condemnation of the coup even as hundreds of protesters rallied at the presidential palace in the capital to demand Zelaya's return and an end to the blackout."

Does the Honduran constitution also have legal provisions for cracking down on the media in the event that the military must overthrow the President?