The Committee of National Unity (
Spanish
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: ''Comité de Unidad Nacional'', CUN) was a
right-wing
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self-styled "
technocratic
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" organization of moderate
conservative
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business and government leaders in
Bolivia
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.
The CUN was founded by
Hernán Antelo Laughlin,
Fastón Villa and
Ronald MacLean Abaroa in November 1977.
In 1978 the Committee of National Unity took part in an electoral coalition
Nationalist Union of the People backing
Juan Pereda Asbún.
[George E. Delury. World Encyclopedia of Political Systems & Parties: Afghanistan-Mozambique. Facts on File, 1983. P.103.]
In 1979, the CUN dissolved into
Hugo Banzer Suárez
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's new
Nationalist Democratic Action
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(ADN).
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1977 establishments in Bolivia
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1979 disestablishments in Bolivia