"Like multi-national companies today, United Fruit made alliances when and where it could to survive. It sought out malleable elements: politicians with whom it could cut a deal and presidents-in-exile awaiting their call to sail back to power. United Fruit might even help find a boat. Its...".Using the excerpt, what is the common term given to the Latin American countries whose economies were indirectly controlled by the United Fruit Company in the 19th and 20th centuries?

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