Gabriela Águila is a historian at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario and CONICET specializing in the 1976-1983 dictatorship When the armed forces overthrew María Estela Martínez de Perón’s government in the early hours of March 24, 1976, the event caused almost no surprise. The coup had been largely expected. It involved broad civilian sectors — right-wing nationalists, Catholic organizations, as...