boligarch

plural boligarchs

1. informalA Venezuelan oligarch or billionaire.

   The rise of "Boligarchs"

   2007, The Economist

   2 more examples

   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.

   2013 March 7, Rory Carroll, Comandante: The Life and Legacy of Hugo Chávez, Canongate Books, →ISBN

   The two fastest-growing forms of housing are slums and gated communities, the latter for the 'boligarchs' growing rich under the Bolivarian revolution.

   2015 October 13, Justin McGuirk, Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 141