Café Lindo Coffee Company
Café Lindo Coffee Company was the legal front to Ernesto Escobedo’s vast drug empire located in Columbia.
Director Phillip Noyce used both the exterior and interior of the Lindo Coffee plant extensively for scenes in his action techno-thriller Clear and Present Danger.
The chicken is in the pot.
Miguel Sandoval as Ernesto Escobedo, and Joaquim de Almeida as Felix Cortez in 'Clear and Present Danger.'
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Joaquim de Almeida as Felix Cortez in 'Clear and Present Danger.' inside the Café Lindo warehouse.
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Miguel Sandoval as Ernesto Escobedo, and Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan in 'Clear and Present Danger.'
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The movie was filmed in various locations throughout Mexico after the studio determined that filming on-location in Colombia was too dangerous. Mexico City stood in for Bogotá and the Hacienda San Gabriel de la Palmas in Cuernavaca serving as a set for Escobedo's headquarters.
Penetrating the communications security of the cartel was a central plot in Tom Clancy’s book as well as the movie. However, at the same time the film was in production (1993), the Colombian military unit called Search Bloc, in co-operation with Centra-Spike (the code name for U.S. Army Intelligence Support Activity), was doing the same thing to Pablo Escobar, who was talking to his family members on an unsecured phone and was eventually tracked down and killed in a barefoot, rooftop gun battle with the Search Bloc.
The machine is still on, Moira.