SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Television astrologer Walter Mercado, whose flamboyant persona made him a star in Latin media and a cherished icon for homosexual individuals in a lot of the Spanish-speaking world, has died. He was 88. Mercado was identified all through Latin American for the melodrama of his day by day horoscopes, delivered on internationally broadcast networks similar to Univision with an exaggerated trilling of the “r.” He favored colourful brocaded capes and large gemstone rings, which he flashed whereas pointing at viewers. Mercado by no means publicly mentioned his sexual orientation however his display screen presence was a supply of consolation for many individuals in lesbian, homosexual, bisexual and transsexual communities all through