The plan’s extremeness, combined with Congressional delays and the emergence of a tense but relatively settled Cold War arrangement between the Soviet Union and the United States, doomed the initiative.[4] Yet, Dracula’s logic continued to shape life in Vieques. The Navy forced the people of Vieques between the two military areas, limiting their mobility and freedom, and continued the bombing practices that had detrimental effects on bodies and communities. By 1999, after a naval accident killed viequense security guard David Sanes Rodríguez and ignited a mass movement to evict the military from Vieques, the island had the highest cancer rates in Puerto Rico (Vieques and the future of the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Facility hearings 1999). The degraded quality of life imposed by the Navy contributed to both the declining health of Vieques’ residents and a stagnant population, which did not appreciably grow for decades, remaining at less than 9,000 people from the 1970s to 2017 (Comisión Estatal de Elecciones 2000).