This festival is celebrating the heritage of these people in this country and might be able to soften the differences they carry from the political happenings in their home country. - - Donna Poisl
By Matt O'Brien, Oakland Tribune
OAKLAND — Members of the East Bay's Salvadoran community celebrated their nation's heritage and contemporary politics with a festival in downtown Oakland on Sunday.
The festival coincided with El Salvador's weeklong August feasts, which celebrate the country's patron saint, El Divino Salvador del Mundo — the Divine Savior of the World.
The celebration also marked what some organizers hoped was a taming of the sharp political differences that have polarized Salvadorans for decades.
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