Mucho Mucho Amor
5 min readJul 15, 2020
And Mucho, Mucho Makeup: the Story of Walter Mercado
I had no idea of who Walter Mercado was until I arrived in the US in the early 90s and discovered his campy astrological readings on Spanish language TV. At the time, I thought he was a total fake. Too much hairspray, too much plastic surgery, too much everything. More than predictions, his prognostications were like a cheering squad. I wanted my zodiac readings to micromanage my…