Editing Manuel Noriega (section)

==In popular culture==
British actor [[Bob Hoskins]] portrayed Manuel Noriega in the biographical 2000 American [[Television film|television movie]] ''[[Noriega: God's Favorite]]''.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kW8j6sHvrewC&pg=PA564 |title=Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors |first=Jerry |last=Roberts |publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]] |date=June 5, 2009 |page=564 |isbn=978-0-8108-6378-1}}</ref> Noriega was also depicted in the 2012 video game ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops II]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://time.com/2993611/call-of-duty-dictator/ |title=This Former Dictator Is Suing the Call of Duty Makers |magazine=Time |last=Abrams |first=Abby |date=July 16, 2014 |access-date=July 17, 2014}}</ref> In July 2014, he filed a lawsuit against the game company [[Activision]] for depicting him and using his name without his permission. Noriega, who filed the suit while in prison for [[murder]], claimed he was portrayed as "a kidnapper, murderer and enemy of the state".<ref name="Gibbons-Neff">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2014/07/16/former-dictator-manuel-noriega-suing-call-of-duty-makers/ |title=Former dictator Manuel Noriega suing 'Call of Duty' makers |last=Gibbons-Neff |first=Thomas |date=July 16, 2014 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=July 18, 2014}}</ref> On October 28, 2014, the case against Activision was dismissed in California by Judge William H. Fahey.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Linshi|first1=Jack |title=Judge Dismisses Manuel Noriega's Call of Duty Lawsuit|url=https://time.com/3544680/manuel-noriega-call-of-duty-lawsuit-dismissed/|access-date=September 30, 2017|magazine=Time|date=October 29, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eurogamer.net/ex-dictators-lawsuit-against-call-of-duty-maker-activision-dismissed|title=Ex-dictator's lawsuit against Call of Duty maker Activision dismissed|first=Wesley |last=Yin-Poole|work=[[Eurogamer]]|date=October 28, 2014|access-date=February 20, 2023}}</ref>