USC instructor and international criminal prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo has sent dictators to jail, as portrayed in the Oscar contender 'Argentina 1985.'
The Argentine lawyer Luis Moreno Ocampo, who has put the screws to genocidal strongmen and placed dictators behind bars, isn’t sure whether Donald Trump should be tried for the Jan. 6 riot.
Back in the early 1980s, Moreno Ocampo wasn’t an urbane 70-year-old man of the world, but a young, very green attorney who’d never prosecuted a single case. Not for the first time, Moreno Ocampo lets out a laugh that lands somewhere between a cackle and a guffaw — a— which may seem surprising from a guy who’s stared so long and hard into the abyss: digging into the genocide in Darfur; investigating Libyan dictator Moammar Kadafi for crimes against humanity;
These days Moreno Ocampo is exploring international justice not in the courtroom but in the USC classroom, where he often collaborates with colleague Ted Braun, a filmmaker whose “Darfur Now” prominently features Moreno Ocampo in his ICC role.
“Spielberg is Shakespeare for me,” he says. “Spielberg is an actor in U.S. life because he defines narratives. The most important American weapon is not the Pentagon. It’s Hollywood.” Mitre, the director of “Argentina 1985,” who was 4 years old when the real trial took place, credits Moreno Ocampo’s insights with enhancing the film’s authenticity and accuracy.
“Borges is a genius,” says Moreno Ocampo, adding an expletive, who served as legal counselor to another Argentine [expletive] genius, Diego Maradona, the football“I knew Maradona very well. He was an artist. He was so poor. And then he became the most famous person in the world — from a person full of limits, to no limits. So he became crazy. But when I met him he was a lovely, lovely young boy.”
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