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Supreme Decree 21060
Supreme Decree 21060 (Decreto Supremo N° 21060) is the decree by which Bolivian president Víctor Paz Estenssoro launched the New Economic Policy in 1985, ending hyperinflation.
Supreme Eiye Confraternity
Supreme Eiye Confraternity (National Association of Airlords), a Nigerian student confraternity founded at the University of Ibadan in 1965, later classed as a secret cult and organized crime group active in trafficking and fraud.
Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Costa Rica
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones, TSE) is Costa Rica's autonomous electoral authority, created by the 1949 Constitution to run elections and judge disputes.
Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Guatemala
Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Guatemala (Tribunal Supremo Electoral, TSE), independent maximum electoral authority created 23 March 1983 by Decree 30-83; five titular and five alternate magistrates elected by Congress; organized 14 electoral processes; VIII Magistratura 2026-2032.
Supreme Federal Court
The Supreme Federal Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal, STF) is Brazil's apex court and guardian of the Constitution: created in 1891, reduced from 15 to 11 justices in 1931, hybrid judicial review, currently led by Edson Fachin amid a 2026 internal crisis.
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
SHAEF, the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, was the integrated U.S.-British command under General Dwight D. Eisenhower, established in London in February 1944, successor to COSSAC, which directed Operation Overlord and the liberation of western Europe until its dissolution on July 14, 1945.
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, or SHAPE, is NATO's strategic operations headquarters at Casteau near Mons, Belgium, activated in 1951 under its first commander, Dwight Eisenhower.
Supreme Intelligence
Supreme Intelligence (Supremor) is Marvel Comics' organic supercomputer ruler of the Kree Empire, built from the greatest Kree brains; first appeared in Fantastic Four #65 (1967); in the MCU Captain Marvel (2019) it appears as each person's most admired figure.
Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal
Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal (Iraqi Special Tribunal, then Iraqi High Tribunal): special Iraqi court created by CPA Order 48 in December 2003, renamed under Law No. 10 of 2005, trying genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes committed 1968–2003, notably the Dujail and Anfal trials.
Supreme Junta of Caracas
The Supreme Junta of Caracas (Junta Suprema de Caracas) was the provisional government installed in Caracas on 19 April 1810, deposing Captain General Vicente de Emparan.
Supreme Junta of Quito
The Supreme Junta of Quito (Junta Soberana de Quito) was a creole governing board that took power in Quito on 10 August 1809, the first autonomous government in Hispanic America.
Supreme Leader of Iran (رهبر ایران)
The Supreme Leader of Iran (رهبر ایران) is Iran's highest authority, commanding the armed forces and judiciary; held by Khomeini, then Ali Khamenei, and Mojtaba Khamenei since 2026.
Supreme Leader Snoke
Supreme Leader Snoke: dark-side ruler of the First Order in Star Wars Episodes VII-VIII, master of Kylo Ren, played via motion capture by Andy Serkis; killed by Ren, later revealed as Palpatine's genetic strandcast puppet.
Supreme Legal Committee in Suwayda
Supreme Legal Committee in Suwayda (اللجنة القانونية العليا في السويداء), a de facto Druze administrative body formed August 2025 under Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri after the July offensive; dissolved 7 April 2026, replaced by the Crisis Management Council.
Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee
The Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee (VMOk) was a Bulgarian émigré revolutionary organization, seated in Sofia, seeking autonomy for Ottoman Macedonia and Adrianople Thrace from 1895 to 1905.
Supreme Master Television
Supreme Master Television (SMTV), also called Supreme Master TV, is a 24/7 free-to-air non-profit satellite and internet channel founded in 2006, inspired by Supreme Master Ching Hai, airing constructive news, spiritual programs, and vegan advocacy worldwide.
Supreme Military Council (Ghana)
The Supreme Military Council (SMC) was Ghana's ruling military junta from 1975 to 1979, chaired by Generals Acheampong and Akuffo, until Rawlings's mutiny replaced it.
Supreme Muslim Council
The Supreme Muslim Council (المجلس الإسلامي الأعلى) was the official Muslim body of Mandatory Palestine, created by the British in 1921 to administer waqf properties and shari'a courts.
Supreme National Council of Cambodia
The Supreme National Council of Cambodia (SNC) was a twelve-member interim body led by Prince Norodom Sihanouk that represented Cambodian sovereignty during the 1991 to 1993 transition.
Supreme People's Assembly (최고인민회의)
Supreme People's Assembly (최고인민회의), North Korea's unicameral legislature and nominal highest organ of state power: 687 deputies, five-year terms, single party-nominated candidates, first elected 25 August 1948, rubber-stamp body.
Supreme Political Council (المجلس السياسي الأعلى)
Supreme Political Council (المجلس السياسي الأعلى), a ten-member Houthi-GPC governing body formed in 2016 in Sana'a, Yemen; exercises presidential power in Houthi-held areas but lacks international recognition versus the Aden-based Presidential Leadership Council.
Supreme Privy Council
The Supreme Privy Council (Верховный тайный совет) was the highest state organ of the Russian Empire from 1726 to 1730, created by Catherine I and abolished by Anna Ioannovna.
Supreme Privy Council and the 'Conditions' of 1730
The 'Conditions' of 1730 were written limits on Empress Anna Ioannovna's power, proposed by the Supreme Privy Council; she tore them up on 25 February 1730, restoring autocracy.
Supreme Ruthenian Council
The Supreme Ruthenian Council (Ukrainian: Holovna Ruska Rada) was the first legal Ukrainian political organization, founded in Lviv in 1848 to represent Galicia's Ruthenians, and dissolved in 1851.
Supreme Sangha Council
The Supreme Sangha Council, also called the Sangha Supreme Council of Thailand (มหาเถรสมาคม), governs the country's Buddhist monkhood under the Supreme Patriarch and a 1962 Sangha Act.
Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR
The Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR (Belarusian: Вярхоўны Савет) was the republic's legislature and highest organ of state power, adopting its 1937 and 1978 constitutions and renaming the state in 1991.
Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR (Eesti NSV Ülemnõukogu) was the highest organ of state authority in the Estonian SSR from 1940 until 1990, when its democratically elected successor led the restoration of independence.
Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (Верховный Совет СССР) was the USSR's bicameral national legislature, created by the 1936 constitution and dissolved with the union in 1991.
Supreme Team (gang)
Supreme Team, Queens, New York street gang founded 1981 by Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff in Baisley Park Houses, South Jamaica; Five Percenter roots, $200,000-a-day 1987 peak, led later by Gerald "Prince" Miller, ended in federal RICO life sentences.
Supreme War Council
The Supreme War Council (Gunji Sangiin) was a Japanese advisory body established in 1903, composed of marshals and senior officers, to advise the emperor on military affairs.