Absolutely! It's hard to beat a communist/Marxist regime when they control pretty much all information and most people don't give a damn because "it's too crazy" or "it doesn't affect them."

A communist/dictatorship regime is most effective at maintaining its control over people when it controls the information. The most important thing it has to do with its control over information is to make those that feel and know something is wrong, feel like they're the only ones that think that: isolate them. A demoralized enemy of state likely won't do anything to fight back.

Castro's little bastard is no different. Rebel news had it's news license revoked by his regime, so now I'm pretty sure the only "news" sources are state funded. (Not sure on that, just guessing -- wouldn't doubt it in this clown world) What better way to control the information than be the one who pays their salaries?