"Ludicrous!" Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez spared no adjectives to describe the collection of signatures on the initiative of the opposition against the inclusion of the contents of the failed constitutional reform in presidential directives enacted via enabling law.

"What I fancy is to request another enabling law, to hammer into them additional 26 laws," boasted Chávez during the 319th edition of his TV and radio show "Aló, Presidente," aired from Santa Rosa, western Barinas state.

"It is just plain stupid. The Organization of American States (OAS) has nothing to do with it. This mirrors a US-supportive, unpatriotic way of thinking. What does the OAS has to do with some laws issued in a sovereign manner? Enabling laws are to the people's benefit."