Somebody: I agree it has the potential to be a prosperous state-led capitalist country like your favorite emerging markets. It has a highly educated population, an envious geographic position, and a strongly independent government not likely to follow the neo-liberal recipe in toto. But, how does that contradict what I said about it undermining socialism? My impression is that you're not really interested in such terminological distinctions, but I feel that many international leftists still are.
The shift towards legalizing and transforming the black market economy to a capitalist service sector in Cuba under Raul Castro is no small matter. Nor is the movement towards private capitalist agriculture or away from universal social services. Needless to say, it renders my Monthly Review published books on Cuban socialism a little obsolete.
If Cuba becomes a Caribbean Chile, great. It just won't provide fodder for socialist leafleting anymore. In fact, it's not clear to me what fodder will be left, as far as presenting alternatives go.