The Latin Union is an international organization of nations that use Romance languages, with the aim of protecting, projecting, and promoting the common cultural heritage and unifying identities of the Latin, and Latin-influenced, world. It was created in 1954 in Madrid, Spain, and has existed as a functional institution since 1983. Its membership has risen from 12 to 36 states, including countries in Latin America, Europe, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region.

The official names of the Latin Union are: Unió Llatina in Catalan, Union latine in French, Unione Latina in Italian, União Latina in Portuguese, Uniunea Latină in Romanian, and Unión Latina in Spanish.

According to the Latin Union's website, membership is open to any nation that meets the following criteria:

The official languages of the Latin Union are Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, and Catalan. Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian are used as working languages. All the texts of general diffusion are translated into these four languages, with some also going into Romanian and Catalan.

Omar Puente (b. 1962) is a Cuban-born violinist and jazz musician, currently living in England.

He studied classical music at the Escuela Nacional de Arte in Havana from the age of 12 and then went on to make a career in classical music, studying at the Estaban Salas and then joining the Nacional Symphony Orquestra de Cuba in which he became first violin. Throughout this time he also played popular Cuban music in clubs, and after leaving the Nacional Symphony Orquestra de Cuba, he went on to tour the world playing modern Cuban music.

In 1997 he settled in Britain with his English wife, Debbie Purdy and plays with the saxophonist Courtney Pine, who has also produced Puente's recent debut solo album "From There to Here".

Jose Manuel Guitian, popularly known as Don Dinero, is an American-born Cuban Rapper.

Dinero was born in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. Don Dinero is the son of Cuban exiles who arrived in the United States at the beginning of the 1960s.

In the late 1990s he and his older brother, Oscar Guitian, started their own label, Last Laugh Records. When this did not succeed he moved in 2002 to Miami, which has a large Latino population. In 2002 he released the album Que Bola! on Cuban Connection Records and the single "Pana Pana." In 2005 he released his next album Ahora Que Sí featuring the single "Arte de la Calle". He released his third album El Ultimo Guerrero on October 31, 2006.