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Significance
The result gives Cuba some of the world's most progressive family and gender legislation, and is superficially a success for the government at a moment of broad discontent over economic hardship. That hardship was compounded on September 27 when Hurricane Ian struck, knocking out electricity supplies nationwide.
Impacts
Cuba's leaders are unlikely to institutionalise the regular use of referendums.
The Cuban peso is in free fall against the US dollar, and inflation looks set to continue.
Outward migration will continue unabated; some 200,000 Cubans have crossed into the United States in the past eleven months.
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