When it comes to right-wing military types in Central America, DeMint puts out for free.

William Finnegan on the Honduran democracy whitewash:

But the coup leaders did have friends in Washington. Some were bought, like Lanny Davis, the former Clinton White House special counsel, now a lobbyist, who took them on as clients. Others were ideological. The latter group included conservative regional specialists like Otto Reich (whom I profiled when he was a Bush Administration official) and conservative congressional Republicans. Three congressional delegations travelled to Honduras to show their support for the coup. One was led by Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), who placed holds on two key Latin American diplomatic appointments to try to force a change in Administration policy toward Honduras.

These congressional jaunts to Honduras were extraordinary. Not only were our representatives consorting openly with putschists and a regime not recognized by any of the world’s governments, they were also thumbing their noses at U.S. policy and, specifically, at President Obama, on foreign soil. This is not done. It is, in fact, arguably illegal, under the Logan Act. U.S. Embassy officials in Honduras told me that they had never seen or heard of anything like it. The delegations even declined the help of the Embassy in arranging their local schedules. Embassy staff who had served in El Salvador during the civil war there recalled visits from liberal Democratic politicians who vehemently opposed Reagan-Bush support for the Salvadoran government and military. Even they, however, worked through the Embassy and kept a lid on their views while in-country. When overseas, it’s always, as they say, Team U.S.A. But not, apparently, for the likes of Senator DeMint or Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL).