This seems like something straight from Atlas Shrugged.
Listen to this lovely description of Evo Morales from The Writer’s Almanac:
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2010/10/26
If you can’t stand to listen to his voice for the whole five minutes skip to about 1:45.
"It’s the birthday of president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, born on this day in 1959 in Orinoca, Bolivia. He’s the leader of Movement for Socialism, a political party devoted to closing the gap between rich and poor by passing land reform laws — and also laws that redistribute profits made from drilling in Bolivia’s natural gas reserves. He was elected president in December of 2005 and re-elected in December 2009.
He spent his childhood as a migrant laborer, harvesting sugar and herding llamas, and was leader of the Coca Growers Union when he was elected. He’s not married, and his older sister acts as first lady. He doesn’t wear suits and ties, instead showing up to meetings with world leaders in a striped sweater. On his 100th day in office, which was May Day 2005, he nationalized all of the natural gas fields, including fields owned by BP and ExxonMobil.
There’s a documentary out about him; it’s called On the Road with Evo (2006)."
He makes the nationalization of the natural gas reserves sound so lovely, doesn’t he?