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Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:01:40 +0000

[...] are treated as second-class citizens. Unlike Food Channel horde Andrew Zimmern, who in 2009 filmed a uncover in Cuba where he ate grilled tree rats but ever mentioning because Cubans are reduced to eating rats, [...]

By: Humberto Fontova

Humberto Fontova — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:43:59 +0000

Can anyone imagine a Zimmern -type show shot in South Africa, circa 1986 or Chile circa 1976, painstakingly skirting political topics??!!

NO JODAN!!

By: Mr. Mojito

Mr. Mojito — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:48:20 +0000

Will they be replaying this show, I'd like to see it?

By: AreaMan

AreaMan — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:42:37 +0000

I've been trying to make my case over at the Travel Channel's blogsite for Andrew Zimmern but it is an uphill battle and some of those people there are DENSE.

Bizarre-Blog

By: vedado1973

vedado1973 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:02:34 +0000

I agree with Honey, everything looked staged, the food, the serving sizes and the people happily singing about Che, you can see the sadness and the suffering in the people and if nothing else it really would turn off a lot to be travellers because the country looks like a shithole not the paradise that some people have in their mind

By: Honey

Honey — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:42:43 +0000

On the other hand, perhaps Zimmerman is showing that this country is a dictatorship and he had to abide by their rules to make his travel program.
Especially if he showed how the regime and travelers get to live it up, this might be a subversive expose.
Is it possible? Even if Zimmerman didn't intend it, it could work out that way. On this program did he show how the, I can't say other half, I have to say other one thousandth, live as well?

By: Rayarena

Rayarena — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:52:09 +0000

Without doubt, Zimmerman like all others reporting out of Cuba docilely agreed to the rules set by the tyrannical regime whereby reporters cannot report on anything objectionable to the regime [i.e. human rights violations, dictatorship, dissidents, screwed up Marxist economy, tourist apartheid, 3rd class citizenry for Cubans, etc..]less he be kicked out of Cuba and his film confiscated.

Zimmerman like all before him have no principles.

By: paul vincent zecchino

paul vincent zecchino — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:46:28 +0000

Oh, no no no, please don't acske quextions like why Cubans hunt rats and drive sixty year old cars. That's so mean spirited and 'disrespectful of the dignity of the revolution' plus it might suggest the TV viewer has a functioning brain - and the goal of the communist ratbag media is to stupify people, enact laws which require them to be strapped to their sofas, drooling in front of their TV sets so as to make the slaughter easier. Cubans hunt rats 'cause they like to. 'n plus they drive those neat old cars because 'the government lets them', as another NYSlimes reporter recently quacked. Paul Vincent Zecchino Manasoviet Key, Florida 02 September, 2009