Film festival
“El oro de Baltasar” and “Lejos del futuro,” 7 p.m., Spanish Cultural Center, www.ccecr.org.

Sururu Na Roda in concert
Samba and Bosa nova, 9 p.m., Jazz Café, Escazú. Info: 2288-4740.

Lunes de Teatro
Dramatized readings, first Monday of each month, through November, 7:30 p.m., Teatro 1887, CENAC. Info: 2281-3170.

Honduras' de facto authorities expelled a delegation from the Organization of American States (OAS) that sought to enter into a dialogue to end the three-month-old standoff that has gripped the Central American country.

The move signaled a deepening of the crisis not just within Honduras, but between the country's de facto government and the international community, which has tightened diplomatic and economic pressure on the nation since its military ousted President Manuel Zelaya on June 28.

Officials of the administration of de facto President Roberto Micheletti said Honduras was not expecting the visit.

“They came by surprise,” said Carlos López, Micheletti's foreign minister. López said the OAS had been “clearly warned not to arrive uninvited, (but) they did it anyway,” he said, adding that it is within Honduras' “legal authority” to deny entry to any visitor.

One member of the delegation, OAS Special Adviser John Biehl of Chile, was permitted to stay because, according to López, he was “a close collaborator in the mediation in Costa Rica.”

Within a week of the coup, the OAS suspended Honduras' membership and the organization's Secretary General José Miguel Insulza flew to the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa to persuade Micheletti to back down, but failed. The international community and Micheletti have remained stuck in a stalemate ever since.

In an additional act of resistance against international pressure, Micheletti's administration on Sunday gave the Brazilian Embassy 10 days to decide what it will do with Zelaya, whom it has sheltered in its embassy since the deposed leader secretly re-entered into Honduras on Sept. 21.

López said “it was Brazil that broke with the current government (of Honduras),” adding that “if no bilateral relations exist then evidently they have to divest themselves of the shield, and become a private office.”

In response, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Brazil won't “accept an ultimatum from a coup government.”

Meanwhile, the leading presidential candidates in Honduras' upcoming elections have met with Zelaya and Micheletti separately, and reported back to Costa Rican President Oscar Arias on their talks. The candidates had visited San José earlier in the month to meet with Arias, who has served as mediator in the crisis.

A team of National Geographic researchers and filmmakers have become eyewitnesses to what many scientists consider to be among the major threats to marine biodiversity at Costa Rica's treasured Isla del Coco, a national park 365 miles off the Pacific coast.

The group, which arrived in Costa Rica three weeks ago to film part of National Geographic's “Ocean Now” series, filmed a green sea turtle and a yellowfin tuna wrapped in illegal fishing line. The group was able to save the turtle, but when they untangled the tuna, the fish sank helplessly to the ocean floor.

“The last three days, we have witnessed firsthand what is killing the oceans,” team researcher Enric Sala wrote on the project's blog. “It was like waking up from the most wonderful dream to the crudest reality.”

Fishing is prohibited inside the park's boundaries. Still, hundreds of miles of illegal fishing lines and thousands of hooks are found inside the protected area every year, according to the National Geographic group.

The Coast Guard and non-governmental groups operate patrol boats to protect the island from poachers and illegal fisherman, but conservationists have consistently criticized the Costa Rican government for not doing enough to protect the park.

Ocean Now is a “project to study the last healthy, undisturbed places in the ocean.” Follow the team's Isla del Coco experience at http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com.

Coors Light is on its way to Costa Rica. The Golden, Colorado-based beer with the slogan “Tap the Rockies” has officially tapped into the Costa Rican beer market, the U.S. company said last week.

Molson Coors Brewing Company announced that it is teaming with distributor Agencias Feduro, based in San José, and will begin to sell the “silver bullet,” a nickname for the silver Coors Light can, in upcoming weeks.

"We are proud to partner with Agencias Feduro (Costa Rica) and excited about the opportunity to bring the world's most refreshing beer to beer drinkers in this beautiful country,” said Paul Mendieta, Molson Coors managing director for Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America, in a statement Thursday.  

“We intend to continue growing our business internationally, particularly in this region of the world," Mendieta said.

Coors Light will be sold in supermarkets, convenience stores, bars and casual dining restaurants throughout Costa Rica. The statement from Molson Coors said they chose to enter Costa Rica due to the country's growing interest in “light” beer. Molson Coors anticipates that light beer will soon make up 30 percent of the beer market in Costa Rica.

The Coors Light bottles and cans in Costa Rica will feature the image of snow-capped mountains as the backdrop to the imprint of the Coors Light name. The bottles will incorporate the “Cold Activation” technology introduced by Coors Light in 2007. The snow capped mountains on the Cold Activation Bottles become blue when the beer is chilled and “cold enough to drink.” The feature is made possible by a thermochromatic ink that is included in the bottle label.

The entry into the Costa Rican market is the latest relationship created between Coors Light and Latin American countries. Coors Light is currently distributed in Mexico and Panama and will launch in Trinidad and Tobago and Curacao Bonaire in upcoming months. Molson Coors said sales of Coors Light jumped over 35 percent over the last year in Mexico and over 150 percent in Panama.