Throughout the pandemic, the Latino Business Alliance in Salem kept its focus on connections

A pre-pandemic Café Y Pan Dulce, a monthly networking event hosted by the Latino Business Alliance that will resume in May 2021. (Courtesy/Latino Business Alliance)

Jose Gonzalez recalled how during the Great Recession of 2008 he and a handful of other business people in Salem’s Latino community came to a realization.

“If we don’t help each other in our community, then nobody’s going to succeed,” he said. “It was really just us saying, we’ve got…