Monteverde Music Fest
Soloflamenco, 7 p.m. Green Park; Peregrino Gris, Saturday, 7 p.m., Anphitheater; Santos y Zurdo, Sunday, 5 p.m., Amphitheater. 

Dance performance
Best of the Choreographers' Festival 8 p.m. Teatro de la Danza, at CENAC, Saturday, 8 p.m., Sunday 5 p.m. 

Fair
Concerts, crafts, food, in support of the Train Museum, today through Sunday, Río Grande de Atenas, Alajuela, 8810-0660.

Free Concert by Editus
6:30 p.m., Plaza de las Artes, in front of La Soledad Church.

Animal benefit garage sale
Fundraiser for animal rights group UESPRA, 10 a.m., in front of Megasuper, Cartago.

Dog Show
Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m., Pipasa Sports Center, La Rivera de Belén, Heredia, 8381-8285.

National Sports Day
Hikes and games, 9 a.m., La Sabana Park.

Play: 'The Little Prince'
Written by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, puppet show, 11 a.m., Eugene O'Neill Theater, CCCN.

A known assailant of tourists has been spotted here again after repeated deportations to his home country of Colombia, police said.

José Alvaro Castilblanco, who police say specializes in assaulting tourists by puncturing their car's tires and robbing them around such visitor hotspots as Irazú Volcano or Playa Jacó, was seen last week in San José, Immigration Police Chief Francisco Castaing said.

Police informants say Castilblanco has changed his appearance and might now have blond hair, said Castaing, who added that police are investigating the bandit's whereabouts.

Costa Rica has deported the Colombian three times, Castaing said.

Police deported Castilblanco in February 2007, but on his way out the tourist attacker mocked this country's justice system, calling Costa Rica is a criminal's paradise and promising to return.

“He said this country is a joke” in terms of outsmarting the law, according to the police chief.

Castaing added that this country's laws need to be tightened to keep Castilblanco, who has also committed burglaries as far afield as Spain and Indonesia, in jail.

“He's a crime traveler,” Castaing said.

Therefore, he explained, Colombia won't steak him out, “because he doesn't commit crimes at home.”

A power struggle in Costa Rica's National Olympics Committee culminated this week with the ouster of committee president Jorge Nery Carvajal.

A majority of the committee's 47 assembly members voted on Tuesday night to replace Nery with Henry Nuñez, head of the country's judo association.

Nery has, however, refused to leave the post, arguing that the assembly was illegal. He and his allies still occupy the committee offices in Coronado and control the committee's bank accounts, according to daily La Nación.

Late last year, Nery became more embattled when the judicial Investigation Police (OIJ) opened an investigation into allegations that he had foraged documents and mismanaged the committee.

Nery has sat as president of the committee for 22 years.

The Costa Rican national soccer team lost 3-1 in a friendly match against Perú at the Esadio Max Augustín in the Amazon jungle town of Iquitos Wednesday night. The result means that “La Sele” has now gone 11 games without a victory.

The loss further increases the pressure on coach Hernán Medford as the country's media slammed the team's performance.

Respected daily La Nación cried “Hasta Perú se rió de la ‘Sele' ” (“Even Perú laughed at the ‘Sele'”), while the tabloid Diario Extra, the most popular paper in the country, mocked the team: “Para variar la “Sele” cayó 3-1 ” (Just for a change, the “Sele” lost 3-1”).

The game was the team's last match before they begin their qualifying campaign for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa against Granada on June 14.

The result is even worse than it first appears as Peruvian coach José del Solar sent out what was effectively a second-string side, with stars such as Claudio Pizarro, Nolberto Solano and Jefferson Farfan all missing from the line-up.

Although Costa Rica started with promise, they fell behind in the 32nd minute to a Hernán Rengifo goal. Costa Rica pulled one back almost immediately when, five minutes later, Alejandro Alpízar scored from the penalty spot following a foul on Ricardo Harris.

However, two further goals in quick succession from Carlos Zambrano and Martín Hidalgo put the tie beyond the reach of Medford's men, who posed no threat in attack.

In other soccer news, Deportivo Saprissa has been fined $15,000 by soccer federation CONCACAF after some fans threw objects, one of which struck a player from Mexico's Atlante, onto the pitch during their second-leg victory in the CONCACAF semifinals on March 20.

The club was ordered to “implement a new stadium security plan prior to its semifinal encounter against the USA's Houston Dynamo,” according to a statement on the federation's Web site. In response, Saprissa yesterday announced a range of new security measures, including increasing the number of security agents from 165 to over 225, according to La Nación.

The association also fined Atlante $2,500 for the “unsportsmanlike behavior” of some players and staff in antagonizing home fans.