Fernando Chico Pardo: The Quiet Tycoon Who Turned Paradise Into a Turnstile
Somewhere between the turquoise shallows of Cancún and the fluorescent purgatory of duty-free, a 72-year-old Mexican engineer named Fernando Chico Pardo keeps cashing in on humanity’s inability to sit still. While the rest of us queue for overpriced sunscreen that promises to ward off both UV rays and existential dread, Chico Pardo’s holding companies quietly…