He's a fellow Panamanian, though the character he plays is from San Salvador. Time to dust off some google searches to remember what happened in San Salvador to find out why he said, "It's too late," once the military moved in. THAT is going to be the story. The one human conflict we haven't seen on Walking Dead is what full-fledged martial law would look like.
I don't think it's an accident that poor Patrick was whisked off to be quarantined. That would be protocol, since they still don't know the vector source. However, since he looks Japanese, there's lots of parallel with what we did to the Japanese Americans in World War II.
Before I even looked for it, I knew I would find this article talking about how Fear the Walking Dead would examine the American immigrant story.
http://io9.com/how-fear-the-walking-dead-will-explore-the-american-imm-1717256270
The Walking Dead spinoff Fear the Walking Dead is going to look at how different family units operate at the beginning of the zombie apocalypse, and one of those families will feature a Salvadorian immigrant and his first-generation American daughter, examining the American dream in the Walking Dead world.
During a roundtable press interview at San Diego Comic-Con, The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead executive producer Gale Anne Hurd explains that the key thing that distinguishes the spinoff show is that, instead of focusing on a former police sheriff and his tribe, Fear the Walking Dead looks at ordinary people with ordinary jobs coping with the growing apocalypse. Among those people is Daniel Salazar, played by Rubén Blades, a barber who came to Los Angeles from El Salvador years ago with his wife:
We’ll deal with the immigrant experience, immigrants who come here for a new life and what they want for their children, to have a better life than they did. That has all changed irreparably.
Blades likened the series to October 11th, 1492, the day before Christopher Columbus landed in the New World. After all, we’re seeing a time four or five weeks before The Walking Dead’s lead protagonist Rick Grimes woke from his coma. And as for Daniel Salazar, Blades said:
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