Corruption in Ecuador accused Ecuador of violating the due process of 27 Supreme Court justices dismissed by Congress in 2004. In 2015, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) stated that “judicial independence is seriously compromised” in Ecuador. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled in 2014 that an $18 billion pollution judgment against Chevron by an Ecuadoran court in 2011 had been the product of corruption. Attorney Steven Donziger and his legal team, according to Kaplan, had “used bribery, fraud and extortion” to win the case for his clients, a group of Ecuadoran villagers. Evidence showed that the ruling issued by Ecuadoran judge Nicolas Zambrano
Ecuador–Mexico relations oil, wood and fish products. Ecuador is Mexico's eleventh biggest trading partner while Mexico is Ecuador's sixth biggest trading partner. In 2011, Mexican companies invested over $2 billion USD in Ecuador and Ecuadorian companies invested $8 million USD in Mexico. Ecuador–Mexico relations Ecuador–Mexico relations refers to the diplomatic relations between Ecuador and Mexico. Both nations are members of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, Latin American Integration Association, Organization of American States, Organization of Ibero-American States and the United Nations. Ecuador and Mexico are two nations that share a common history by being both once part of the