 Together with human rights activist Jesuit Father Ismael Moreno Coto and the priest Fausto Milla, he was threatened with death and lost their pastoral work for the poor and activities of condemnation against the coup of former President Zelaya 2009.He was together with Manuel Zelaya in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa.Because of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, Father Andrés Tamayo was deprived of Honduran nationality, was expelled from the country and was displaced from his parish in the municipality of Salamá.