Mexican professional dancer Daniel Zapata Colón reunites with mom in U.S. after 20 years
Mexican professional dancer Daniel Zapata Colón came to the U.S. for a dance competition and was able to meet up with his mom, Araceli Colón, more than 20 years after she left to get work and provide for him.
Daniel Zapata Colón had not seen his mother since he was a young boy in Acapulco, Mexico. She had left for the U.S. in 1999, hoping the move would lead to a better life for her son.
"I had to build a future for him and that was why we decided to come," Araceli Colón, Daniel's mother, told Telemundo Arizona in Spanish.
But their more than 20-year separation came to an end last week when Daniel, a professional dancer, came to the U.S. to compete in a Latin dance championship. It was also the perfect opportunity to stop by Phoenix, where his mother lives, and give her the hug he had long yearned for.
“My dream was to be with my mother again, and it is something that I just fulfilled,” Daniel told Telemundo Arizona in Spanish as he sat for an interview alongside his mother. “I feel completely me; it was the only piece that was missing in my heart and in my life.”
Araceli recalled “crying, crying, crying, crying all the time” after she relocated to the U.S. and left her son with his grandmother in Acapulco. “Afterwards I had to adapt to the circumstances and work, work, work” to provide for them from afar, she said.
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