who was memin pinguin?

Memín Pinguín is a fictional character from Mexico. Stories featuring him, a very poor Cuban-Mexican boy, first appeared in the 1940s and have remained in print since.

The character is known as Memín Pingüín by some Mexicans due to a publisher’s change, when they found that the word pinga, whence pinguín, was a slang term for “penis” in some countries, but later it was restored to Pinguín. Memín was a creation of the late and famed writer Yolanda Vargas Dulché, and currently, there are talks about making a motion picture based on the magazine and its characters.