The governor said the incidents were extortion, not kidnappings, and the crime did not occur in Puerto Vallarta. Records from the U.S. State Department and Nayarit’s Attorney General show victims held and abused in Puerto Vallarta, then moved to Nayarit, contradicting his account on Puerto Vallarta kidnappings.
When state governor Pablo Lemus Navarro insisted that the recent cases involving U.S. citizens in Puerto Vallarta were merely extortion rather than kidnappings, he directly conflicted with both the U.S. State Department’s travel alert and Nayarit’s Attorney General. His version does not . . .
