Cuba's President Raul Castro addresses the audience during the opening session of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit in Havana January 28, 2014. REUTERS/Adalberto Roque/Pool
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Eleven months before Barack Obama's historic handshake with Raul Castro, Europe staged its own show of friendliness with Cuba. While little noticed, this gesture may end up doing far more to end the communist island's isolation.
It all happened one hot January day last year at an EU-Latin America summit in Chile. Castro cheerily waved alongside European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso for the official group picture and then, as the photo gathering broke up, German Chancellor Angela Merkel shook his hand.
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