InstitutionClaim Cited
United Fruit in Guatemala
United Fruit joined plantations to rail, port, shipping, communications, land reserves, labor control, and U.S. political access, making corporate operating capacity part of Guatemala's national infrastructure; agrarian reform challenged that position, and the company's conflict became one strand in the Cold War coalition behind the 1954 overthrow of Jacobo Árbenz.
How can a corporation become capable enough to shape a country's options without formally governing it?