It’s a huge jump from “Walmart hires off-duty cops for security” to Walmart having “the cartels” murder whistleblowers.
And neither of your links have anything to do with major corporations.
And neither of your links have anything to do with major corporations.
The point you should take away is that there is no actual distinction between the coercive capabilities of corporations and those of the state or in absence of a state, the ruling landlord/gang/dictator
Smedley Butler wrote about this in detail in the 1930s (1)
This is well documented in the Banana wars
States are, and have always been, the corrcion arm of the largest employer in a sovereign territory