Two elderly people died and 16 others were affected by food poisoning as they were fed with spoiled food in a geriatric centre in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Almagro, which is now under the authorities’ investigation.

A group of protesters who protested over the closure of a cultural center this afternoon in Plaza de Mayo, was violently removed by the Gendarmerie. There are several detainees.

The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo presented the returned grandson number 98, named Martin, who was born within the marriage between Guillermo Amarilla and Marcela Molfino, both of them missing in the last military dictatorship.

USS New York, a new battleship built with steel from the World Trade Centre, sailed into New York harbour yesterday on its maiden voyage and delivered a 21-gun salute near Ground Zero. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

Reynaldo Benito Antonio Bignone, Argentina’s last dictator, is being judged from today along with five other generals and a Buenos Aires superintendent. They accused of 58 kidnappings, missing people, and tortures committed three decades ago in Campo de Mayo, the biggest clandestine detention centre in Argentina.

Some of pop’s biggest stars are backing Barack Obama’s plan to close the Guantanamo’s detention centre in Cuba where their music was used to torture prisoners.

Repressors Bernardo Jorge Olivera Rovere and Jose Menendez were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Oral Federal Tribunal 5 of Buenos Aires for the crimes committed during the Argentine dictatorship. Olivera Rovere was a deputy commander of I Corpsunder the command of Guillermo Suarez Mason. Three other officers were acquitted.

The judge “Laly” Parrilli, accused of threatening and discriminating two traffic wokers, was a refugee in Holland. A montonera militant, she had also made up she had given birth in the clandestine centre.

Government sources have said last night that only the medical centre will be intervened and not the union of bankers.

Thousands of demonstrators of the mobilization taken forward by D’Elía were occupying approximately seven blocks of the avenue Rivadavia.