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Bolivian hyperinflation 1984-85
The Bolivian hyperinflation of 1984-85 raised consumer prices 625-fold, the only true hyperinflation in thirty-five years, and was halted within ten days by President Paz Estenssoro's Decree 21060.
Bolivian immigration to Argentina
Bolivian immigration to Argentina is a long-standing migration flow, historically seasonal harvest work in the northwest and now urban labor, with about 345,000 Bolivian-born residents at the 2010 census.
Bolivian land reform of 2006
The Bolivian land reform of 2006 was a law under President Evo Morales that accelerated land distribution, expropriated unproductive estates, and titled indigenous community lands.
Bolivian National Revolution
The Bolivian National Revolution was the April 1952 insurrection in which the MNR overthrew Bolivia's military government, launching universal suffrage, mine nationalization, and agrarian reform.
Bolivian pension reform of 2010
The Bolivian pension reform of 2010 is Law No. 065, enacted by President Evo Morales in December 2010, which created the hybrid Sistema Integral de Pensiones.
Bolivian peso
The Bolivian peso (peso boliviano) was Bolivia's currency from 1963 until 1987, collapsing in the 1984 to 1985 hyperinflation before the new boliviano replaced it.
Bolivian Popular Assembly
The Bolivian Popular Assembly (Asamblea Popular) was a body of worker, peasant, and student delegates convened by the Bolivian Workers' Central trade union federation in 1971.
Bolivian Revolution of 1949
The Bolivian Revolution of 1949 was a nationwide armed uprising in Bolivia by the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR), which even organized a rebel government in Santa Cruz.
Bolivian rubber boom
The Bolivian rubber boom, or auge de la goma, was the period from the late 1800s to the early 1900s when wild rubber from the Bolivian Amazon became one of Bolivia's leading exports.
Bolivian Socialist Falange
The Bolivian Socialist Falange (Falange Socialista Boliviana, FSB) is a Bolivian political party founded in 1937 by exiled students in Chile, led by Óscar Únzaga de la Vega.
Bolivian tin crash of 1985
The Bolivian tin crash of 1985 was the October collapse of the international tin market, which destroyed the export Bolivia depended on and triggered mass mine closures.
Bolivian tin nationalization of 1952
The Bolivian tin nationalization of 1952 was the October 31 transfer of the Patiño, Hochschild, and Aramayo tin companies to the Bolivian state, run by the new corporation COMIBOL.
Bolivian universal suffrage reform of 1952
The Bolivian universal suffrage reform of 1952 was a decree by President Víctor Paz Estenssoro's MNR government that enfranchised women, illiterate, and Indigenous Bolivians, roughly quintupling the electorate by 1956.
Bolivian War of Independence
The Bolivian War of Independence (1809–1825) was the sixteen-year armed struggle by which Upper Peru, now Bolivia, separated from Spanish rule and became a republic.
Bolivian Workers' Central
The Bolivian Workers' Central (Central Obrera Boliviana, COB) is Bolivia's national trade union federation, founded in La Paz in 1952 under its first leader, Juan Lechín Oquendo.
Bolkiah
Bolkiah, remembered as Nakhoda Ragam, was the fifth Sultan of Brunei whose 1485 to 1524 reign brought the sultanate its greatest territorial extent, covering most of Borneo.
Bollea v. Gawker
Bollea v. Gawker, also known as Hogan v. Gawker, was the privacy lawsuit by wrestler Hulk Hogan over Gawker posting his sex tape, won in 2016 for $140 million.
Bollinger Bands
Bollinger Bands are a technical-analysis overlay of a moving average with bands set a multiple of the standard deviation above and below it, described by John Bollinger in 1992.
Bollocks
Bollocks is British vulgar slang for testicles and for nonsense, also an exclamation of disagreement; from Old English beallucas, recorded from 1744, famous from the 1977 Sex Pistols obscenity case.
Bolloré family
The Bolloré family is a French business dynasty founded in Brittany in 1822 as a paper manufacturer, now controlling Bolloré SE through a pyramid of holding companies.
Bologna massacre
Bologna massacre (strage di Bologna): 2 August 1980 neo-fascist time bombing at Bologna Centrale station, 10:25, killing 85 and wounding 200+. NAR members Fioravanti, Mambro, Ciavardini, Cavallini and fifth man Paolo Bellini convicted; P2-linked obstruction; commemorated yearly at 10:25.
Bologna Process
Bologna Process: intergovernmental European higher education reform launched by the 1999 Bologna Declaration (29 countries), creating the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) in 2010 with a three-cycle bachelor-master-doctor degree system, ECTS credits, recognition and quality assurance commitments across 49 members.
Bolojan cabinet
Bolojan cabinet: Romania's PSD–PNL–USR–UDMR coalition government under PM Ilie Bolojan, invested 23 June 2025, which pursued deficit reduction from 9.3% of GDP via VAT, dividend, and bank tax hikes, and fell to a no-confidence motion on 5 May 2026.
Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires
Founded in 1854, the Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires (BCBA) is a not-for-profit Argentine association. It acts as a self-regulatory body and owns 31 percent of BYMA.
Bolsa de Valores de Colombia
Bolsa de Valores de Colombia (BVC) is Colombia's national stock exchange, created in 2001 by merging the Bogotá, Medellín, and Occidente exchanges and part of nuam since 2023.
Bolsa Família
Bolsa Família is Brazil's conditional cash transfer program, paying monthly benefits to over 20 million poor families on condition that children attend school; it transferred R$168.3 billion in 2024.
Bolsa Latinoamericana de Valores (Latinex)
Bolsa Latinoamericana de Valores, S.A. (Latinex) is Panama's national securities exchange, supervised by the Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores and rebranded from the Bolsa de Valores de Panamá in 2021.
Bolsa Mexicana de Valores
The Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV) is Mexico's principal stock exchange, incorporated in 1933 and the second largest in Latin America, with market capitalization above US$530 billion.
Bolshevik Party
The Bolshevik Party was the Lenin-led wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, organized as a separate party in 1912 and renamed the Russian Communist Party in 1918.
Bolsheviks
Bolsheviks (bolshinstvo, majority) were Lenin's majority-named but minority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, split in 1903 from the Mensheviks, which seized power in October 1917 and became the Russian Communist Party in 1918.