Daniel Salazar is a fictional character in the television series Fear the Walking Dead, portrayed by Panamanian actor Rubén Blades.

Despite his murderous past, Daniel has demonstrated that he cares about his family more than anything else and is a loving husband and father who vowed to give his daughter the best life possible in the United States.

Daniel is extremely cautious around those that he does not trust, and appears to be highly skilled at identifying a potential threat from body language and social cues.

While a riot rages outside, a mob sets fire to the store adjoining the barbershop, forcing the Salazars and Manawas to flee.

Travis learns that Daniel tortured Adams into revealing what "Cobalt" means: in the morning, all civilians will be killed, and the guardsmen will evacuate the city.

Looking for a way to turn the situation in his favor, he attempted to break free of his bonds, while Madison distracted the tyrant woman who was keeping an eye on them.

Daniel, like the rest of his companions, finally met the leader of the group; Connor, who not only decided to take Travis and Alicia with him but also informed everyone that they would be stripped of the ship and abandoned on the shore.

Fortunately, the intervention of Strand's partner - Luis Flores - started a shootout that ended most of the pirates and created a distraction, which Daniel took advantage of to disarm Reed and get him to be mortally wounded.

He snaps out of his daze when Ofelia arrives, and together they escort Reed out of the room to deliver to the pirates to save Alicia and Travis.

When they manage to reach the mansion of Thomas Abigail, in Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California, Daniel discovers that Celia keeps the dead relatives of the complex in the basement.

Throughout the season, Daniel displays increasing signs of mental illness following the death of his wife as noted by several characters including Ofelia and Celia.

Everything culminates in Daniel setting fire to the mansion in order to destroy the zombies held in the basement and what he feels to be an unholy place.

Needing water for the Broke Jaw Ranch, Madison travels to the dam where she is shocked to be reunited with Daniel whom she had believed to be dead.

Desperate to save their friends, Strand, Sarah, Wendell and Charlie plot to break in to Daniel's warehouse while he's gone and steal the plane.

Charlie inadvertently hitches a ride with Daniel who reveals that he is disarming the traps that the warehouse's previous owner had left around supply caches and dealing with the zombies that they had created.

At the end of the season, Daniel is separated from both Charlie and Skidmark when Virginia forcibly takes Morgan's group into her various settlements.

However, it's quickly revealed that Daniel is only faking his dementia in order to keep Virginia and her Pioneers off-guard and he secretly begins working as a spy for Morgan inside of the organization.

June performs tests on Daniel and determines that his problems are not neurological but psychological, likely caused by his trouble settling into a more normal life while still under threat from the cult.

After Alicia reveals the doomsday cult's plans to launch the USS Pennsylvania's complement of nuclear missiles, Daniel joins the rest of Morgan's group in traveling to the beached sub near Galveston, Texas in order to stop them.

Daniel eventually descends into a full fugue state where he experiences memory blackouts and believes that his daughter Ofelia is still alive.

Regardless, Luciana refuses to give up on him, leading to a close bond between the two, while Morgan sees Daniel as his group's best chance of outsmarting Victor Strand who has become the tyrannical dictator of the only safe place left.

In "Divine Providence," Daniel joins Alicia in entering Strand's Tower, now completely delusional and seeking his daughter.

Having been warned ahead of time by Wes, Strand has Daniel locked up, but he agrees to make peace upon learning that Alicia is dying of her walker bite.

Finally recognizing the truth, Daniel breaks free of his fugue state and spares Strand's life, choosing to take care of Charlie for what time she has left.

In "More Time Than You Know," Daniel initially agrees to help with the mission to clear out PADRE's shipyard, but he backs out after learning that it needs to be done by hand.

Daniel helps Madison to escape from Shrike and he attempts to use his own experiences as a child soldier to convince the Prefects to stand down before they do something that they can never come back from.

Having lost Grace and made peace with his losses, Morgan decides to return to Alexandria with Mo, leaving PADRE in the hands of Daniel and Madison.

In "Anton," Daniel searches for the missing Madison who has been reunited with Strand and is being hunted for by a hostile group led by Troy Otto.

In "Iron Tiger," a mission to find fuel leads to Daniel reuniting with Luciana and Charlie who was cured of her illness by PADRE.

Daniel and Madison realize that Troy intends to attack PADRE with an army of the dead, just like he did with Broke Jaw Ranch.