Fidel Castro: History won't absolve him, but Wikipedia is already covering him up

In February 2012, Dr. Carlos J. Bringuier recounted some of the crimes of Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro in an article with the apt title: "History will not absolve him!"

The more than 100 million deaths that communism caused, divided by countries
Lenin: numbers, data and images of the crimes of the first communist dictator

The precedent of the first communist dictator: Lenin

I agree with Dr. Bringuier, because Fidel Castro exercised power as a dictator for half a century, using torture and murder to silence his opponents. However, enormous efforts will be necessary for that verdict to be guilty. I already explained the case of Lenin here, a dictator who killed many more people than Castro in less time (six years) and using a wide and horrendous list of torture and murder methods, but who despite this is still today considered "the good guy" compared to the "bad guy" Stalin.

This is how Wikipedia whitewashes Fidel Castro

An example of the whitewashing that many communist tyrants enjoy can be found in what many, including quite a few journalists, take as their reference for all kinds of matters: Wikipedia. The Spanish Wikipedia entry on Fidel Castro reads like a Castro propaganda pamphlet: It only mentions Batista and the Dominican Rafael Trujillo as "dictators." There are only two mentions of the Castro regime as a "dictatorship" or of Castro himself as a "dictator," and in both cases, Wikipedia refers to what the tyrant's detractors claim. In the section "Opiniones sobre su política" more space is devoted to Castro supporters than to anti-Castro supporters. Of the latter's accusations against the Cuban communist dictatorship, only vague statements are made, for example: "It has committed numerous human rights violations." In the entire entry, there is not a single reference to those tortured, murdered, or exiled (the only reference to an exile is to the dictator's sister, Juanita, who is described as a "CIA collaborator").

Other communist dictators whose status is omitted by Wikipedia

It is significant to read the first lines of this entry, which state that Fidel Castro "was a Cuban military man, revolutionary, statesman and politician. He was the leader of his country as prime minister (1959-1976) and president (1976-2008)." Not a single mention of his status as a dictator or that his regime was a single-party regime. Things change if we read, for example, the entry on Francisco Franco: "he was a Spanish military officer and dictator, who, along with other high-ranking members of the military leadership, promoted the 1936 coup d'état against the democratic government of the Second Republic, the failure of which led to the Spanish Civil War." The same in the entry on Fulgencio Batista: "he was a Cuban military officer, politician, and dictator. He was the elected president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and dictator between 1952 and 1959, the year in which he was overthrown during the Cuban Revolution." Of course, this may not surprise those who know a little aboutWikipedia and its tendency to whitewashing communist dictators. Here are some examples:

• Lenin: "was a Russian politician, revolutionary, political theorist, and communist. Leader of the Bolshevik sector of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, he became the principal leader of the October Revolution of 1917." Throughout the entry, the only reference to his status as a dictator is to point out that this is how his detractors label him..
• Mao: "was the supreme leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the People's Republic of China." The only reference to his status as a dictator appears in the notes of the very long entry. Despite being the greatest genocidaire in history, the words "genocidaire" or "genocide" do not appear anywhere.
• Wojciech Jaruzelski: "was a Polish politician and military officer. He was the president of the socialist era in Poland, a country he governed from 1981 to 1989. He served as Prime Minister of Poland from 1981 to 1985 and as Head of State from 1985 to 1990, as well as Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces and General Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) during that time." Not a single mention of him being a dictator.
• Enver Hoxha: "was an Albanian communist politician, Prime Minister of this country between 1944 and 1954. However, he was its supreme leader from 1946 until his death in 1985." Despite being a brutal dictator,the word "dictator" does not appear in the entire entry.
• Erich Honecker: "was a German communist politician who held important positions in the German Democratic Republic (GDR)." Despite having been the head of a totalitarian regime that turned his country into a giant prison, there is not a single mention of the words "dictator" or "dictatorship" in the entire entry.
• Nicolae Ceaușescu: "was a communist politician, President of Romania and Chairman of the Council of State of Romania. He ruled the Socialist Republic of Romania from 1967 until his execution in 1989 and was General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989." Again, not a single mention of his status as a dictator.

In the entry on Fidel Castro there have been various discussions about his status as a dictator (can be seen here and here). In the end, those who refused to mention him for what he is have won: a disregard not only for historical truth, but also for the Cubans themselves, who have lived for decades under that tyrant's one-party regime. If a one-party regime without free elections is not a dictatorship, then what is it?