In general, too, the government in La Paz has lost the confidence of the people of the Altiplano.
In the high altiplano, poor peasants depend for much of their water on the slow melting of snow.
Los dirigentes campesinos mantienen actualmente una huelga de hambre y un bloqueo en una carretera del altiplano, en exigencia de varias demandas al gobierno.
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The rewards of this three-day up-and-back climb are the incredible views over the dry altiplano and a thrilling peek into the ice-crusted craters of these volcano twins.
Those new brick houses on the altiplano are likely to keep Mr Morales in power in the elections due at the end of the year.
The latest census, in 2001, would take six seats from La Paz, the capital, and the impoverished Altiplano, and give four to Santa Cruz, an eastern boomtown.
But more than 2, 000km north of the big city, near the Bolivian border, the traditional villages located high up in the Andean altiplano have not fared as well.
These include chewing the leaves to mitigate the rigours of Bolivia's bleak Altiplano, 4, 000 metres (13, 100 feet) above sea level, as well as the coca tea given to tourists on arrival in La Paz.
Those who live on the altiplano are likely to view Mr Morales, the country's first indigenous president, with pride and to think that his government offers them a chance to get their share of revenues from the gasfields around Santa Cruz.
Los aymaras, es decir los urus, los chipayas, los omasuyos, los pacajes, los sicasicas, los curahuaras y los carangas en el sur del altiplano tienen tanto derecho a ser bolivianos como los quechuas de los valles, y los charcas, los chicas, los yamparas, los misques, los lipes y los clisas, o los chiriguanos en los contrafuertes andinos del este y sureste.
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