Jonah, the Castro obituaries will be an interesting contrast with Pinochet’s, but I would also nominate the Chinese communist dictator Deng Xiaoping, who like Pinochet, was a liberalizing dictator. (The big difference: Chile’s now free, and run by a socialist atheist feminist. China’s still communist.) The WashPost captures all the horror of oppression under Pinochet (and all the complaints of leftists who still tingle at the names of Salvador Allende and Orlando Letelier), but the Post emphasized all the openings and liberalizings under Deng when he died in 1997 — and all the gooey praise from Bill Clinton.