page_title: Monument to the Victims of the USS Maine (Havana)
section_title: Partial destruction
hierarchical_section_title: Monument to the Victims of the USS Maine (Havana) / Partial destruction
caption_attribution_description: English: Monument USS Maine, in Havana, Cuba Deutsch: Denkmal USS Maine, in Havanna, Kuba
context_page_description: The Monument to the Victims of the USS Maine was built in 1925 on the Malecón boulevard at the end of Línea Calle, in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana, Cuba.
context_section_description: On 18 January 1961, the eagle and busts of the Americans were removed, because it was considered a "symbol of imperialism," The following inscription was later added:
  To the victims of the Maine who were sacrificed by the imperialist voracity and their desire to gain control of the island of Cuba
  February 1898 – February 1961
  (A las víctimas de El Maine que fueron sacrificadas por la voracidad imperialista en su afán de apoderarse de la isla de Cuba.
  Febrero 1898 – Febrero 1961)
  "The eagle was torn down after the triumph of the revolution because it's the symbol of imperialism, the United States, and the revolution ended all that," said Ernesto Moreno, a 77-year-old Havana resident who remembers waking up one day and seeing the statue gone. "I found it to be a very good thing, and I think most Cubans agreed at the time."
caption: The monument today.
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