The list I linked is, yes.

Sorry, but is there anyway to verify that the list is widely accepted beyond your word? I have a hard time believing liberals are jumping to agree with the HF.

Sure thing, they use a combination of government integrity, judicial effectiveness, government spending, fiscal health, business freedom, labor freedom, monetary freedom, trade freedom, investment freedom, and financial freedom to arrive at their ranking.

How did they determine to include these categories -- and only these categories -- as part of the index? Indices can be misleading in that way as I can just cherry pick what I want to factor in and then present the index as an objective measure despite heavy researcher bias.

For example, we can look at tax rates and state ownership of industry as valuable measurements of economic freedom -- but stable inflation rates and judicial effectiveness? Not to mention these numbers are all then weighted equally to one another as if they all matter just the same.

What I don't understand is what you're arguing.

It's really straightforward: citing a partisan group is not objective and the index is meant to appear as if it is objective despite flaws in order to push its partisan goals. Cuba is not a utopia, but the Heritage Foundation is a bad place to go to try and get data for any argument.