The September 11 attacks: Latin America's losses

Of the more than 6,000 persons killed in the September 11 attacks on passenger airliners, the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, some 20 percent were citizens of countries other than the United States. Most of the bodies of those who died are burned and buried under rubble, and some will never be identified. Moreover, in any complete assessment of the losses from the incidents, huge economic setbacks must be counted, beginning with job losses of those who escaped with their lives but whose workplaces in the World Trade Center were destroyed and continuing though those who have suffered the indirect consequences, for example those who have been laid of by airlines or the tourism industry. There are also many people who were injured in the attacks, some of them gravely. Thus, for many reasons, it is difficult to put accurate numbers on the losses from the events of September 11.

With the above caveats in mind, the following are the numbers, by country, of Latin American citizens who died or are missing as the result of the attacks:

Argentina: 4 missing
Bolivia: 1 missing
Brazil: 9 missing
Chile: 1 confirmed dead, 1 missing
Colombia: 3 confirmed dead, 21 missing
Dominican Republic: 1 confirmed dead, 41 missing
Ecuador: 8 confirmed dead, 24 missing
El Salvador: 1 confirmed dead, 72 missing
Guatemala: 5 missing
Honduras: 4 missing
Mexico: 15 missing
Nicaragua: 1 missing
Panama: 1 missing
Paraguay: 2 missing
Peru: 1 confirmed dead, 8 missing
Uruguay: 1 confirmed dead
Venezuela: 4 missing

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