Nayarit

[nah-yah-reet]

noun

1. a state in W Mexico. 10,442 sq. mi. (27,045 sq. km). Tepic.

Nayarit

/ najaˈrit /

noun

1. a state of W Mexico, on the Pacific: includes the offshore Tres Marías Islands. Capital: Tepic. Pop: 919 739 (2000). Area: 27 621 sq km (10 772 sq miles)

Example Sentences

The Nayarit plaintiffs say they endured torture, death threats and extortion during El Diablo’s reign of terror.

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Representing the Nayarit residents — who are seeking unspecified damages — is San Francisco-based Guernica37, a nonprofit organization seeking accountability for global rights abuses.

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Nayarit’s location, sandwiched between the drug-trafficking hubs of Sinaloa and Jalisco states, made it prized turf as organized crime syndicates expanded their terrain and embraced new rackets.

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Violence escalated rapidly in Nayarit, and elsewhere in Mexico, after President Felipe Calderón, with U.S. backing, declared “war” in 2006 on drug cartels.

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Veytia hitched his fortune to the spurs of the charismatic Roberto Sandoval, a glad-handing pol in a cowboy hat who was elected mayor of Tepic and, in 2011, governor of Nayarit.

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