boligarch

English

Etymology

Blend of bolívar +‎ oligarch.

Pronunciation

Noun

boligarch (plural boligarchs)

  1. (informal) A Venezuelan oligarch or billionaire.
    • 2007, The Economist:
      The rise of "Boligarchs"
    • 2013 March 7, Rory Carroll, Comandante: The Life and Legacy of Hugo Chávez, Canongate Books, →ISBN:
      It was rumoured that on a trip home to Barinas, Chávez took a baseball bat to a brother's Hummer. But for all his public railing, he continued letting the boligarchs make money – long as they served him.
    • 2015 October 13, Justin McGuirk, Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 141:
      The two fastest-growing forms of housing are slums and gated communities, the latter for the 'boligarchs' growing rich under the Bolivarian revolution.
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