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Three times in recent months, a Honduran woman named Alma went to US officials at the border between Reynosa, Mexico and Hidalgo, Texas, to ask for asylum for herself and her three children. She had fled Honduras because her other child had been killed by gang members, and she brought documentation to prove it.

But three times she was told by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that she would have to wait in Mexico. In February, the family was kidnapped.

After weeks of arm-twisting reluctant members and backroom negotiations, House Republicans voted Thursday to pass the much-maligned, "astonishingly evil" American Healthcare Act (AHCA), known as Trumpcare.

ROBYN MARSHALL, ROBYNNE MURPHY and MARGARET GLEESON are in El Salvador as observers in the March 20 elections. Here they report some initial impressions. To celebrate the winding up of the election campaign, 8000 FMLN supporters filled the Plaza
By Norm Dixon JOHANNESBURG — Support continues to grow for the right of prisoners to vote in South Africa's first democratic elections. The announcement by the South African Prisoners' Organisation for Human Rights (SAPOHR) that prisoners
Unhappy "There is no correlation between happiness and money. I believe the richer you get the richer you want to be and the competition to climb up the rich list causes unhappiness." — Stockbroker Rene Rivkin, explaining that his mate,
By Stephen Marks SAN SALVADOR — One of the jokes told at the left's closing election rally here referred to the big letter "Z" emblazoned on the T-shirted chests of "Zamora for President" supporters. The story goes that when Calderon Sol, the
By Craig Cormick Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe. Budget welfare
By Norm Dixon JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela received a tumultuous welcome from tens of thousands of triumphant residents of Bophuthatswana when he entered Mmabatho's Independence Stadium on March 15. The African National Congress president,
Free to Hate: The rise of the new right in post-communist Eastern Europe By Paul Hockenos Routledge. 1993. $49 (hb) Reviewed by Phil Hearse As the mass anti-bureaucratic movement gathered pace in East Germany (GDR) in November and December
The Cutting Edge — Agatha's Curse SBS TV Tuesday, March 29, 8.30pm (8 Adelaide) Reviewed by Jill Hickson This moving program alerts us to the grim picture for women in Australia. Breast cancer will kill 2500 Australian women this year.

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