Intro All right I don t understand the objections to he overthrew the regime of General Fulgencio Batista or His leadership has been marked by the implementation of programs that substantially boosted the nation s literacy rate in the intro In particular I think that was generous for Tre to have left the literacy statement there unless of course he did it by accident Can someone also provide enlightenment on the use of term dictator I don t think that this is pejorative in its common usage and wikipedia s own page on Dictator lists plenty of examples of dicatators including Castro If Castro and Batista don t qualify as dictators exactly where is the line drawn