By Micheal Chukwuebuka, Reporting
ACCORDING to our source, NBC News, Daniel Zapata Colón, a professional dancer, 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.
Daniel Zapata Colón and his mother Araceli Colón at an exclusive interview with Telemundo Arizona
Their more than 20-year separation came to an end last week when her son, Daniel, 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.
“I feel completely me; it was the only piece that was missing in my heart and in my life,” Daniel told Telemundo Arizona in Spanish.
Araceli recalled how she cried every day after she relocated to the U.S., leaving 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.
Although they were thousands of miles apart, Araceli was, however, the main breadwinner for her son, but Daniel had to learn how to grow up without her.
Daniel has won several titles competing in world dance championships in dozens of countries.
Most recently, he placed third as a solo dancer in the bachata music category at The Summit world Latin dance competition in Orlando, Florida.
Daniel told Telemundo Arizona that he would be traveling to France for his next competition.
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