Analysis - New climate of pragmatism prevails in U.S.-Cuba relations

A truck carrying bananas travels on Cuba's main highway on the outskirts of Havana August 8, 2013. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan

MIAMI/HAVANA (Reuters) - U.S. relations with Cuba have undergone a surprise warming in recent months, raising expectations of possible agreements to bring the two countries closer after more than 50 years of hostility.

U.S. and Cuban officials overcame a series of potentially divisive incidents this summer with mutual displays of pragmatism rarely seen since Cuba's 1959 socialist revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power.