
Early 20th Century
A Clerk's Comma Costs a Continent
A punctuation error in a 1903 treaty handed Brazil an area the size of Switzerland—and Bolivia's negotiators didn't notice until the ink was dry.
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Download on the App StoreSouth AmericaBoliviaBrazilEarly 20th CenturyDiplomacyColonialismRubber TradeTerritorial DisputeAcre TerritoryJosé Manuel PandoBaron of Rio Branco
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