When Miguel Díaz-Canel was appointed president in 2018, putting an end to Cuba’s six-decade-long Castro Era, it came as an inflection point for the island. Mr. Díaz-Canel opened a path for liberal economic reforms that eventually ended Cuba’s dual currency scheme, allowed small and medium-sized private companies to operate, and even considered “adjusting communism to the global market.”
Changes came on the social front, too, as the traditionally conservative country began creating a more tolerant Cuba for LGBTQIA+ people — in the past frowned upon and persecuted by the ruling Communist Party. It even toyed with the...
