http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/01/world/americas/bolivia-journalist-attacked/index.html
Yacuiba FM radio talk show host and station owner....Fernando Vidal, 70...is in critical condition..after he was set on fire while on air...conducting a daytime interview.
Police have arrested 4 suspects...but his family wants to know who was really behind the vicious assault.
Vidal was a former supporter of President Evo Morales...but parted ways over Evo's growing authoritarian rule.
He is also a vocal critic of political corruption.
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