In 1952, San Juan Mayor Felisa Rincon de Gautier collaborated with the now defunct Eastern Airlines to transport two tons of snow from New Hampshire to Puerto Rico. This snow is a gift for the island, aimed at attracting Puerto Rican children with a "white" American Christmas. This spectacle represents an unfair economic transaction: airplanes bring instant satisfaction to capitalism in the form of snow, and return to the United States with cheap Puerto Rican labor residing in El Barrio. Puerto Rico's colonial imprisonment is condensed into a gift of snowmelt.
