While several countries in South America have already embraced marriage equality, Bolivia may be following the U.S. piecemeal model. Legislation has been proposed in one departmental (state) legislature to legalize same-sex marriage.
According to the Bolivian newspaper Los Tiempos, a group of LGBT nonprofit groups presented a proposal to the Cochabamba Departmental Assembly to include same-sex marriage in the state’s Autonomy Statute.
Marco Carrillo, the chairman of the committee that drafts such legislation, is analyzing whether this issue can be determined locally or must be done nationally.
“They are proposing the recognition of same-sex unions and out of that also arises the question of recognition of accumulation of future assets and social benefits,” Carrillo said.
Bolivia is divided into nine departments. Cochabamba is centrally located in the country. Its capital, also called Cochabamba, is the fourth-largest city in Bolivia with a metropolitan population of more than 1 million.
Among other South American countries, Argentina has marriage equality, while Brazil, Ecuador and Uruguay recognize civil unions.
One can not make a general comment of marriage in Bolivia, we are a multicultural country, the only legal marriage is civil marriage, after one can marry in a religious ceremony. The Family book lists any property that is owned before by the groom and bride, criollo old traditional families we make sure to list our inheritances,
Indian in their comunities they do not marry they live in “free unions”The land they might have is all worked in a comunity.
Marriage inthe gay and lesbian comunity is not going to happen, it goes against ALL Bolivians,and Plurinationals values and believes.
Marriage can be only between man and woman, not a man and his pet,another man, woman and woman, it is perversition, after all we got AIDS because of maricones.
Your comments are disgusting !
You are poor bigots people. What about love ? Human heart ? Being is not a choice, being an hatefull homophobe is !
Are your religious beliefs Bolivians values ? I don’t think so …
One day, human rights will lead the world, gay rights are human righits. Be ready hate will be destoyed.