Editing Contras (section)

==In popular culture ==
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*In ''[[The Last Thing He Wanted (film)|The Last Thing He Wanted]]'', a journalist for the fictitious ''Atlanta Post'' stops her coverage of the [[1984 U.S. Presidential election]] to care for her dying father.  In the process, she inherits his position as an arms dealer for [[Central America]], and learns of the [[Iran–Contra affair]].
*In [[American Dad! season 4|Season 4]] of the TV series [[American Dad!]], the titular father, Stan Smith, sings a song to his son Steve about [[Oliver North]], the person allegedly responsible for covertly funding the Contras through the [[Iran–Contra affair]], after claiming the remaining gold from the affair was hidden under their house. 
* George King aka George Washington King, an alias for Jorge Orozco, was the main antagonist of [[Dexter season 3|Season 3]] of the TV series ''[[Dexter (TV series)|Dexter]]'' along with Miguel Prado. Conscripted into the Nicaraguan army, later he rose to the rank of captain in the Contras, heading an interrogation unit. Orozco tortured and killed people for a living, earning the nickname "The Blade", and later, moved to the United States. When one of his criminal associates, Freebo, disappears while owing him a large amount of money (he was actually killed by Dexter), King begins hunting for him throughout Miami, feeling that he has been disrespected, but Dexter correctly guesses that King simply enjoys torturing and killing people and has convinced himself otherwise,
*''[[Martial Eagle (The Americans)|The Americans]]'', the TV series features an episode on KGB agents infiltrating a Contra camp.
*''[[American Made (film)|American Made]]'', a film loosely based on [[Barry Seal]]'s life.
*In [[The Boys (season 3)|Season 3]] of the [[Amazon Prime]] TV series [[The Boys (TV series)|The Boys]], the American superhero team Payback is clandestinely deployed to Nicaragua in 1984 to assist Contra units supported by the CIA.
*''[[Carla's Song]]'', a fictional film by [[Ken Loach]] set in part against the backdrop of the conflict in Nicaragua.
*''[[Contra (video game series)|Contra]]'', a popular video game series by [[Konami]].<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Contra Legacy of War: The Classics Come to 32-Bits|magazine=[[Electronic Gaming Monthly]]|issue=87 |publisher=[[Ziff Davis]] |date=October 1996|page=142}}</ref> While it is unclear whether the game was deliberately named after the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, the ending theme of the original game was titled {{nihongo|"[[Sandinista National Liberation Front|Sandinista]]"|サンディニスタ}}, after the adversaries of the real-life Contras.<ref>{{cite AV media notes|title=Ａ－ＪＡＸ～コナミ・ゲーム・ミュージック VOL.4 A-Jax: Konami Game Music Vol. 4|type=booklet|publisher=G.M.O. Records / Alfa Records|id=28XA-201|url=http://vgmdb.net/album/3863}}</ref>
*''[[Contra (album)|Contra]]'', the second studio album by the American indie rock band [[Vampire Weekend]], released in January 2010 on XL Recordings. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200. The album title is intended as a thematic allegory and a complex reference to the Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries. The song "I Think Ur a Contra" is from this album.
*''[[Sandinista!]]'', an album by [[The Clash]], features songs about The Contras in Nicaragua. It was released in 1980. The song "Washington Bullets" is from this album.  
*''Student Visas'', a song by [[Corb Lund]] from the album "[[Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier!]]", is about US Clandestine soldiers (such as SFOD-D and CIA Paramilitary) interacting with Contras in El Salvador and Nicaragua.
*''[[Fragile (Sting song)|Fragile]]'' The song is a tribute to [[Ben Linder]], an American [[civil engineer]] who was killed by the Contras in 1987 while working on a [[hydroelectric]] project in [[Nicaragua]].
*''[[Narcos: Mexico]]'' features an episode where Felix has to deliver guns to Nicaragua with Amado and a CIA operative for Salvador Nava and Mexico's Minister of Defense
*''[[The Mighty Quinn (film)|The Mighty Quinn]]'' involves a CIA operative and a Latino right-wing assassin trying to recover large sums of untraceable US dollars which were to fund anti-communist counter-revolution on the mainland (Nicaragua is not mentioned).
*''[[Snowfall (TV series)|Snowfall]]'' a TV series following several characters, including an undercover CIA officer facilitating cocaine smuggling into the US on the behalf of the Nicaraguan Contras and his connection to a 20-year-old drug dealer in Los Angeles in the mid-1980s, the early days of the crack cocaine epidemic.
*''[[The Last Narc]]'', a 2020 documentary about the kidnapping and murder of DEA agent [[Kiki Camarena]] by Mexican drug cartels, ends up covering parts of the Iran-Contra scandal.