CARACAS, Monday September 01, 2008 | Update
Politics
"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."
04:17 PM. Western Hemisphere. "Damned empire; I curse you one thousand times; some day you will be finished off and wrecked. I curse you one thousand times, empire." This is the least that President Hugo Chávez has uttered to refer to the US government. In urging the Bolivarian Armed Forces to prepare for war, he said that a US raid on Venezuela through Colombia would trigger and spread over the region "the 100-year war."