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2010: Year of the Nini

Posted 02 September 2010 | By | Categories: Citizen Action, Immigration, Mexico & Border, The Drug War | 2 Comments

If Time magazine had any inkling of sense, it would name the Nini the person of the year for 2010. Just what, you might ask, is a Nini? Coined by crisis in Mexico, the slang word means a young person who does not work or study.

In Mexico, the Nini has been front and center in the press in recent days. Surrounding the World Youth Conference held late last month in the central Mexican city of Leon, Guanajuato, a sharp polemic developed over the number of Ninis in the country and the government’s response to them.