The Man Who Broke the Rice Market with a Pastel Chart: Fernando Mendoza’s Accidental Reckoning with Global Finance
Fernando Mendoza, the name that’s currently ricocheting around encrypted group chats from Singapore to São Paulo, is neither a head of state nor a freshly sanctioned oligarch. He is, rather inconveniently, a 38-year-old Paraguayan agronomist who accidentally broke the global rice futures market last Tuesday—an achievement previously thought to require at least one Swiss bank…