WORLD BRIEFING / CUBA

Fidel Castro said a U.S. move allowing unlimited family travel and remittances to the island was “positive, although minimal.”

The ailing 82-year-old ex-president saluted the changes announced Monday by the Obama administration in a column posted on a government website.

But he wrote that “we need many others,” including the elimination of the “wet-foot, dry-foot” policy. Under that rule, Cubans fleeing the island who are apprehended on the high seas are returned home, but those who make it to U.S. territory can stay.

Castro also lambasted the Organization of American States on Tuesday afternoon, in his third essay in a little more than 24 hours.

Cuba was expelled from the organization in 1962 after member nations said its communist regime went against the hemispheric body’s principles.