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Same-sex couples can now legally marry across Mexico after lawmakers in Tamaulipas state on Oct. 26 approved a marriage equality bill.
Mexico City in 2010 became the first jurisdiction in the country to allow same-sex couples to legally marry. The Mexican Supreme Court in 2015 ruled state laws that ban same-sex marriage are “discriminatory.”
Lawmakers in Tamaulipas, which borders Texas, on Oct. 26 by a 23-12 margin voted to amend the state’s Civil Code to allow same-sex couples to marry. Legislators in Guerrero state in southern Mexico on Tuesday approved a marriage equality bill.
Mexico is the latest Latin American country to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples.
Voters in Cuba last month approved a new family code that includes marriage equality.
Same-sex couples can legally marry in Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Barthélemy, St. Martin, Sint Maarten, Sint Eustatius and Saba also have marriage equality.
