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THE AMERICAS
WWW.HERALD.COM
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2004 I 13A
BRAZIL
PERU
Foe of president wins
Sao Paulo mayor post
Surfer on the verge of history
■ Former Health Minister
José Serra, defeated in a
2002 presidential bid, won
the Sao Paulo mayoral race.
The governing party also
lost control in Port Alegre.
Los Angeles Times Service
SAO PAULO — In a midterm election setback to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,
the ruling Workers’ Party lost
its hold Sunday on the mayoralty of this sprawling metropolis of 10 million people, South
America’s largest city.
The party also was defeated
in a runoff race in Porto
Alegre, a traditional leftist bastion in southern Brazil that has
had a mayor from the Workers’ Party for the last 16 years.
The results in the two cities, among the country’s most
important state capitals, represented a disappointing coda to
a municipal election season
that otherwise produced significant gains for the Workers’
Party, or PT, especially in Brazil’s vast interior, away from
the urban centers where it
does best.
NOTABLE VICTORIES
Sunday’s runoff elections,
four weeks after first-round
contests in Brazil’s 5,500
municipalities, sealed the PT’s
grip on nearly 400 cities, double the number it won four
years ago.
Among its notable victories
Sunday were in Fortaleza, the
capital of Ceara state, and
Vitoria, the capital of Espírito
Santo.
Earlier, the party had
scored outright first-round
wins in Belo Horizonte and
Recife, two other major capitals, as well as in a number of
smaller towns in the countryside, where the party’s following has been weaker.
BITTER LOSS
Still, the loss of Sao Paulo,
whose mayor occupies one of
Brazil’s highest-profile politi-
■ A surfer from Peru is
cal posts, was
a bitter one
for the PT,
which got its
start here.
Especially
embarrassing
for Lula da
Silva is the
fact that the
SERRA
new mayorelect, José Serra, is the man he
beat for the presidency in a
landslide two years ago.
CONVINCING VICTORY
This time, with most precincts reporting, Serra was
headed for a convincing win
over Lula da Silva’s preferred
candidate, incumbent Marta
Suplicy, a veteran PT activist.
Serra, a one-time national
health minister, capitalized on
dissatisfaction with Suplicy’s
record on public health and
transportation as well as with
voter resentment of what
many consider her haughty,
imperious attitude.
Serra’s election means that
the governorship and mayoralty of Sao Paulo state and city
— Brazil’s financial and industrial nerve center — will be
controlled by the Brazilian
Social Democracy Party, putting it in a position to mount a
potential challenge to Lula da
Silva in the 2006 presidential
race.
But Lula da Silva’s chief
advisor, José Dirceu, dismissed speculation that the
loss in Sao Paulo might trigger
changes in national policy or
even a Cabinet reshuffle.
Polls suggested that Sao
Paulo voters were concerned
more with local issues and
personalities.
Many of them criticized
Suplicy, a former sex therapist
famous for her high-fashion
wardrobe, as being arrogant,
and opted for the comparatively colorless Serra despite
the fact that his campaign
offered almost no policy proposals.
At 14, she visited Hawaii for
the first time, watched some
of the top female surfers hit
the waves and aspired to
reach their level.
Upon returning to Peru, ‘‘I
started surfing more and
watching more surfing videos.
I began begging my mom to
let me stay home from school
when the waves were good.’’
likely to trump surfers from
Hawaii, Australia and
California to become the
first female champion from
Latin America.
BY TYLER BRIDGES
[email protected]
PUNTA HERMOSA, Peru
— A surfboard and wet suit in
the back, Sofia Mulanovich
piloted her sand-encrusted
Peugeot station wagon
through the dirt streets of this
beach town, no one paying
her any heed.
Mulanovich is, however,
turning heads at surfing hot
spots in the rest of the world.
The diminutive 20-yearold Peruvian is on course to
become the first female world
champion surfer from Latin
America.
‘‘It would be momentous,’’
said Rabbit Bartholomew, a
former surfing champ who is
president of the Association
of Surf Professionals, an Australia-based group that oversees the pro tour. ‘‘It would be
like the new order stepping
up.’’
With two tournaments
remaining, Mulanovich has a
healthy lead in the points
race.
‘‘I’m stoked,’’ Mulanovich
said. ‘‘I’ve been preparing
myself my whole life for this
moment.’’
The world’s best surfers
traditionally come from Australia, Hawaii, California and,
most recently, Brazil.
But Peru, with three times
the coastline of California, has
a rich history of surfing, dating to the 1930s when a playboy jet-setter named Carlos
Dogny introduced the sport
that he had learned on trips to
Hawaii.
In 1942, Dogny and eight
other well-heeled young men
founded a surfing club they
called the Club Waikiki,
below the bluffs of the Lima
neighborhood Miraflores.
In 1965, when Peru hosted
that year’s world champion-
TYLER BRIDGES/HERALD STAFF
IN HER ELEMENT: Sofia Mulanovich says it was only
natural that she took up surfing, because she was
raised in a beachfront house in Punta Hermosa, Peru.
ship, surfers from Hawaii,
California and Australia were
amazed to see white-jacketed
servants attend to every need
of the Club Waikiki patrons,
including carrying their
boards to the water. A young
Peruvian, Felipe Pomar, won
the world championship.
‘‘But there were very few
surfers in Peru then,’’ Pomar
said in a telephone interview
from Hawaii, where he now
lives.
streaked hair and ability to
speak fluent English. She also
speaks surfer slang, tossing
out words like ‘‘gnarly’’ and
‘‘stoked.’’
When she isn’t surfing,
she’s likely to be watching a
surfing video.
Asked why she began surfing, Mulanovich laughed and
pointed to the scene outside
the living-room window of
her parent’s beachfront house
in Punta Hermosa. Waves
were a stone’s throw away.
‘‘It was pretty inevitable
that I ended up surfing,’’
Mulanovich said. It didn’t
hurt that her grandfather and
father surfed and were members of Club Waikiki.
‘‘It’s in her genes,’’ said
Meza, her first teacher.
For her first lesson, he took
her to a surf spot called Cerro
Azul, which was immortalized in a Beach Boys song,
Surfin’ Safari.
‘‘She tried to stand up but
fell the first few times,’’ Meza
said. ‘‘But before the day was
over, she stood up and went
for a long ride. Not many can
do that on their first day.’’
Mulanovich began competing against — and defeating
— boys in local tournaments.
GROWING SPORT
Carlos Meza, coach of the
Peruvian national team, estimates there are 15,000 surfers
in Peru today, and surf shops
are scattered throughout
Lima’s coastal neighborhoods.
The ranks of surfers are
growing thanks to Mulanovich.
Sales in Peru of Quiksilver/Roxy, a women’s surfing
clothes line, have soared from
$60,000 in 2002 to $300,000
this year, said the company’s
sales representative in Peru,
Jose Schiaffino.
‘‘It’s thanks largely to
Sofia,’’ he said.
Mulanovich is nicknamed
‘‘La Gringa,’’ because of her
fair-colored skin, blonde-
ON TOUR
In 2002, she began competing in the World Qualifying
Series, the junior league pro
tour, won her first tourney
and finished second overall.
In 2003, she moved up to the
World Championship Tour,
where the best 18 surfers compete, and finished seventh.
This year, she won three
consecutive tour tournaments, in France, Tahiti and
Fiji, before losing in the quarterfinals in the last tournament, at Malibu Beach. She
remains the points leader on
the tour.
Fernando Aguerre, coowner of Reef, the Californiabased maker of footwear and
surfing apparel, said his company sponsors about 500 surfers. But he said he has a soft
spot for Mulanovich.
‘‘Whenever I see anybody
from Latin America who is
good, my blood gets pumped
up,’’ said Aguerre, who
founded the first surf shop in
his native Argentina, before
immigrating to the United
States. ‘‘It’s like one from my
casa.’’
Aguerre, who is president
of the California-based International Surfing Association,
has known Mulanovich since
she was 14.
‘‘Anybody who reaches the
top of anything, it takes a lot
of work and persistence,’’ he
said. ‘‘Most people don’t have
that. Most people are lazy and
say screw it. Sofia is obsessed
with what she wants. She
could be at the top of women’s surfing for the next 10
years. She’s not going to
waste that opportunity.’’
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