A COURT yesterday sentenced a former army general to life in prison and three ex-state agents to 20 or 25 years for crimes against humanity committed in a notorious torture centre during Argentina’s military dictatorship.

The first Roman Catholic priest to be charged for killings and kidnappings under Argentina’s former dictatorship has been convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez rallied thousands of leftist sympathisers after a South American trade summit at Cordoba, in Argentina, railing against the US-backed free market policies they blame for many of Latin America’s woes.

Singer Bono and the band U2 saluted the ageing Argentinian Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo at their final concert in Buenos Aires last night, honouring the human rights group that arose during Argentina’s past dictatorship.