Blog Assignment 5

In a letter to the editor at CapX.co, David Boaz wrote to gripe about the media's refusal to call Raul Castro by his rightful title, that which is 'dictator' or 'tyrant', not 'president'. Harping on how even the vaunted Wall Street Journal miscalled Rual Castro a president, he bemoans how people like Gen. Alfredo Stroessner, the dictator of Paraguay, are rightfully called tyrants but how the media nowadays refers to tyrants by their chosen name, instead of their correct one. Boaz goes on to point out how Stroessner even held election, and that though they were rigged, it made tyrants such as Stroessner and Pinochet more 'presidential' than the Castros ever could be. The article that he refers to is a Wall Street Journal article that refers to Raul Castro by his 'proper' title, president. Going into detail about the succession of Fidel Castro by his younger brother Raul, the article talks more about the political changes made to the communist economic system. Talking about how people have more economic freedom, but little political freedom, the author goes on to say that despite the fact that Cuba remains politically restrictive, it has changed.