When my friend saw the first picture, she asked me if it was a cigar or a penis. It's actually a single column. This eight-meter tall black marble column stands on the corner of Linea and L in Vedado and was erected in 1931 to commemorate Havana's chinos mambises who fought for Cuban independence. About 2,000 to 5,000 Chinese Cubans fought against Spanish colonial rule. The dedication is inscribed in both Spanish and Chinese (in the third picture). In the fourth picture are the words of nineteenth century Cuban General, Gonzalo de Quesada, which translates as "There was not a single Chinese Cuban deserter, nor a single Chinese Cuban traitor"
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