In Aymara, spoken in South America, the future is behind and the past in front.
Polls can be inconclusive here, but Morales, who is an Aymara Indian, is expected to win.
Morales, an Aymara descendant, rose from humble beginnings to be leader of the coca growers' federation in the 1980s.
Morales is dressed in a ceremonial white robe, customarily worn by Aymara priests.
She spoke a pre-Inca language, Aymara, and through a translator I learned that she was explaining her success at feeding her kids for the first time in her life.
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While the Aymara adopted some of the Catholic ideologies and traditions forced upon them by European settlers, they also continued to practice their own religion, an older native American belief system.
His multicultural vision of Bolivia is gentler than that of Felipe Quispe, an Aymara Indian leader from the high plain around La Paz, who wants to restore the paradise that prevailed before colonisation.
Today however, the native Aymara culture, once populous and rich with ancestral tradition, is dying out after 10, 000 years of recorded history, with families moving down from the antiplano in search of jobs and education in bigger towns and cities.
These states form a giant half-moon across Bolivia's relatively prosperous eastern half, an area dominated by a largely mestizo and white population that has began to see with skepticism the newfound influence of the Aymara and Quechua Indian population of Bolivia's western Andean highlands.
These four lines of action of the planned project have been established as priorities by the Aymara communities in the different phases of consultation and preparation of the project and they will be implemented with the full involvement of the communities, guided by the 2003 Convention's principles.
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