ABSTRACT

And now a little Christmas Carol… In the 1950s a legendary mayor of San Juan, perhaps what they called a typical colonial leader, like one of those that you might know, decided that the essential problem to the educative process of the Puerto Rican children was that as inhabitants of the tropic and not of temperate zones, they have never seen Christmas in Vermont, Fifth Avenue Tree Lights, Bing Crosby White Christmas Special, they did not know SNOW.