Colombia: Edward Nino Hernandez is in abounding means a archetypal 24-year-old Colombian male. He loves to ball reggaeton, dreams of owning a car — finer a Mercedes and wants to see the world.
Top on his account of bodies he would like to accommodated are Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and above Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. What sets Nino (pronounced NEE-nyoh) afar is his size. He is hardly taller than a allotment of attache baggage and weighs aloof 22 pounds (10 kilograms).
Nino has aloof been clearly certified as the world's beeline active man by Guinness World Records, barometer 27 inches (70 centimeters). "He hasn't developed back he was 2 years old," his mother, Noemi Hernandez, said of the oldest of her bristles active children.
The antecedent advocate was He Pingping of China, who was 1.5 inches (4 centimeters) taller and died March 13. The Guinness bodies apparent Nino afterward. They say Nino's administration is not acceptable to aftermost long, however.
Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal is accepted to booty over afterwards he turns 18 on Oct. 14. He measures about 22 inches (56 centimeters) and is currently accustomed by Guinness as the beeline active teen. Doctors never could explain why Nino is so small, his parents say.
"They never gave us a diagnosis," his mother, Noemi Hernandez, said during an account in the family's sparely furnished accommodation in Bosa, a mostly poor commune of southern Bogota. Hernandez, 43, said Nino advised aloof 3.3 pounds (1.5 kilograms) at bearing and was 15 inches (38 centimeters) long.
She said doctors at the National University advised him until he was 3, again absent interest. She and her husband, a aegis guard, absent a babe who was analogously baby in 1992 back she was about to complete a year of life.
The couple's youngest child, 11-year-old Miguel Angel, stands 37 inches (93 centimeters) alpine and has facial actualization agnate to Nino. The added three boys are of accustomed acme and appearance.
"I feel blessed because I'm unique," Nino said in an account Friday with The Associated Press. He does, however, accept his problems: amaurosis in both of his eyes that becloud his eyes and, says his mother, crave burning anaplasty that the ancestors can't afford.
"He doesn't see well. He isn't able to read," she said. During an interview, Nino's eyes baptize and he all-overs with the laces on his toddler-sized atramentous dress shoes. Added than his eyes, he has no medical complaints.
He's mentally aciculate and action calmly admitting it's sometimes adamantine to accept his acute accent and his chubby fingers accomplish autograph difficult. Nino had to echo several years of academy afore bottomward out in the eighth grade. But he's actual sociable, loves to biking -- admitting he hasn't been alfresco Colombia -- and brand to comedy dominoes and checkers.
"He alone gets depressed back he's shut in at home," his mother said. Leafing through an beforehand archetype of the Guinness World Records 2011 edition, which launches Sept. 15 in the United States and the abutting day internationally, Hernandez shows Nino a account of the world's aboriginal woman, who is from India.
He's not absorbed in the least. Nino says he already has a girlfriend. She's 18, is called Fanny and measures aloof beneath 5 anxiety (1.5 meters), he says. Nino has becoming some banknote dancing at administration food and is now acting in a blur in which he plays -- What else? This is Colombia -- a pint-sized biologic thug.
In his big scene, Nino gets into a shootout. He acts out the scene, artful a pistol with the basis fingers of his entwined hands, again slumps over assimilate the chair's arm. His appearance doesn't survive the gunbattle.
Nino smiles broadly at the abstraction of added acting jobs and added activity in the spotlight. And he says he's gotten acclimated to all the picture-taking. But actuality the world's aboriginal man does accept its drawbacks. "It bothers me that bodies are (always) affecting me and acrimonious me up," he said.
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