Astrologer Walter Mercado dies at 87

Puerto Rican astrologer Walter Mercado Salinas died Saturday night at the Auxilio Mutuo Hospital in San Juan, according to hospital spokeswoman Sofia Luquis. The astrologer captivated an audience of 120 million people, among the US. and Latin America, for three decades. He began his career one day that he had to fill a void in a program in Puerto Rico for the absence of the Spanish singer Camilo Sesto and improvised a description of the zodiac signs. He did so well that he ended up having his own program.