With nearly empty streets, the city of Santa Cruz, Bolivia's economic capital and opposition stronghold, begins a 24-hour strike to protest a recent population census considered distorted. The Santa Cruz Department's civic committee, which organized the strike, believes that the March census, whose results were released last week, was manipulated by President Jean Arce's government to undercount the department's population and, as a result, reduce its share of public funding. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES