The correct answer is D) the destruction of infrastructure and the loss of skilled labor caused economic decline throughout the region.
The economic impact that the Latin American wars for independence had on the region was "the destruction of infrastructure and the loss of skilled labor caused economic decline throughout the region."
Most of the wars of independence in Latin American left sequels and conditions that were difficult to overcome. After so many destruction and deaths, Latin American countries that finally got their independence suffered severe damage to basic infrastructure and the loss of lives, that impede them to build the nation in an ideal way. The economy of the country suffered and the social condition followed.