If you don't mind the endemic poverty and lack of basic human rights, of course.

I'm not sure if you only visited the touristic areas or are being sarcastic.

I assumed he was being sarcastic and trying to imply that banning advertising will suddenly make us all communists.

A more serious and relevant example would be São Paulo. They completely banned outdoor advertising and the world didn't fall apart. Seems like they new relaxed the ban enough to allow art.

http://www.fastcocreate.com/1681353/advertising-comes-back-t...