Uruguay to legalize same-sex civil unions in December

A reader of the previous post about Panama got ahead of me when he left a message that reads "BTW, Uruguay's House passed a civil unions bill today."

I've been too busy to write about it but I thought it was big enough news for an English language news source to report on it before the day was over.

I was right:

• Uruguay set to legalize gay civil Unions (Reuters, November 29, 2007)

And for those of you who read Spanish, you can get additional details here:

• "A un paso de la union civil" (Pagina 12, November 29, 2007)
• "Diputados aprobarán unión concubinaria" (Espectador, November 29, 2007)