Do words mean anything anymore?

Frances Robles describes José Ramón Machado Ventura, Raul Castro's new number 2 man as a "devout socialist". Jose Rodriguez Zapatero of Spain is a socialist. Machado Ventura is a communist. Big difference. Sweden is a socialist country. Cuba is a communist country. This of course along with calling Raul Castro "president". Can a newspaper be trusted when it can't simply call a spade a spade anymore?

H/T: Newsbusters