-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Hondurans divided over an ongoing political crisis agree on one thing -- they do n't think very highly of their leaders , according to a new survey . Almost half of Hondurans polled -- 48 percent -- said they disapproved of the job President Jose Manuel Zelaya was doing before he was ousted in a coup on June 28 , said the 2009 Latinobarometro survey . The man who assumed power after the coup , de facto President Roberto Micheletti , received a disapproval rating of 65 percent for how he has handled the crisis , according to the survey . The annual Latinobarometro survey , named after the Chile-based non-profit company of the same name , is among the most highly regarded polls in the region . This year , the poll asked a number of questions that shed light on how Hondurans and other Latin Americans viewed the political crisis in Honduras . A new Honduran president , Pepe Lobo Sosa , was elected last month , though the international community is split on whether to recognize him because the vote took place under the rule of the de facto government . An agreement between negotiators for Zelaya and Micheletti had been reached earlier , but lost much credibility when its implementation did n't go as planned . Zelaya , who remains holed up inside the Brazilian embassy in the Honduran capital ever since covertly sneaking back into his country in September , has called the plan dead . Several attempts to find a resolution failed , despite strong international criticism of the coup . `` It can be said that the force of rejection of all the international organizations , which were raised in a singular voice against the coup and in favor of the restitution of the constitutionally elected president , were ineffective against the local political forces that had expelled Zelaya in an ignominious manner , '' the survey said . The political crisis stemmed from Zelaya 's desire to hold a referendum that could have changed the constitution to allow longer terms for the president . The country 's congress had outlawed the vote , and the supreme court had ruled it illegal . Micheletti and his supporters say Zelaya 's removal was a constitutional transfer of power and not a coup . According to Latinobarometro , 58 percent of Hondurans disapproved of the coup , while another 28 percent said they approved of Zelaya 's ouster . Those more heavily in favor of the coup included those with a higher education and the elderly , the survey found . Of those with university degrees , 40 percent approved of the coup , compared with 27 percent approval among those with only a basic education , the survey said . Zelaya faced long odds of returning to the presidency because the supreme court and congress , including lawmakers from his own party , were against his calls for the referendum that led to his ouster . These political power brokers , and in general , the Honduran elite that backed Micheletti , likely account for the discrepancy between education level and views of the coup . In Honduras , the elite are more likely to have completed university than others . The low approval ratings for Zelaya point to his thin election victory in 2005 , according to Latinobarometro . The leftist Zelaya was elected with just under 50 percent of the vote . That margin hardly gave him a mandate to push the sweeping constitutional reforms he wanted , the survey said . `` Manuel Zelaya wanted to implement reforms that were beyond what the majority supported , '' the report said . Outside of Honduras , 24 percent of respondents in the other Latin American countries approved of the coup , the Latinobarometro survey found . Asked to rate Honduran democracy on a scale of 1 to 10 , those outside of the country said the Central American nation merited a 5.2 , the survey said . It was the first time that the firm asked for people to give their perception of democracy in a country that was not their own . Latinobarometro also asked respondents in the region whether they believed a coup was possible in their own country . The highest affirmative responses came from countries that have left-leaning presidents . Ecuadorians -LRB- 36 percent -RRB- , Brazilians -LRB- 34 percent -RRB- and Venezuelans -LRB- 30 percent -RRB- said a coup was possible in their country .