Nearly two decades later, as the United States entered the Cold War, the Department of Defense again rekindled its desire for an empty island. In 1958, the military drew plans to “expel and relocate” all 11,000 residents of Vieques and Culebra, with the goal of completely militarizing the two islands. The plan was popularly known as “Plan Drácula,” even by the committee of notables that Governor Muñoz Marín created, which included future governor Roberto Sánchez Vilella, then resident commissioner Antonio Fernós Isern, and industrialist Heriberto Alonso (Vélez Rodríguez 2002). The relocation proposal was considered to be worthy of Count Dracula’s name because it not only called for the expulsion of all living people but demanded the removal of the bones and coffinsfrom the cemetery so that former residents would have no reason to return, not even to pray or place flowers on the graves of their dead (Malavet 2007, 149).