Rather, it is a complex propaganda campaign that calls for massive expenditures of resources, requires enormous research and precise planning, and demands continuous evaluation in order to invoke a response that would otherwise never occur if the target populations were not subject to this communications operation. A number of similar definitions refer to operations carefully planned and implemented so as to impose one's will on another group of persons without provoking physical resistance. These definitions and explanations appear in literally hundreds of documents about the psychological warfare effort of the United States, much of which is now directed toward the emerging nations of the southern hemisphere for the purpose of political and ideological domination, and with the more specific goal of molding opinions about family in such a way as to undermine the desire and even the tolerance for large families. The importance of these events to the Catholic world is so great as to be virtually incalculable. Already about half of the world's Catholics live in Latin America.
Brazil is home to the largest Catholic population in the world.
Catholics are numerous, obedient, and increasing in numbers in Africa, and within a very short time there will be more African Catholics than European Catholics. Yet 27 percent of Brazilian women of childbearing age have been sterilized. In the Dominican Republic, more than a third of women in their reproductive years have been sterilized. And in Colombia, which may have the strongest Catholic identity in the region, birthrates have fallen over the past 25 years faster than any place else on earth, not even excluding China. In reality, however, there is an abundance of evidence to suggest that there was careful manipulation of public opinion to foster confusion and ambivalence about the authority of the Church in this area.