Volunteers prepare their boats to transport donations to Guaiba for flood victims in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, on May 13, 2024. Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday put off a state visit to Chile to focus on the historic floods in the south of the country that have left 147 dead. Torrential rains since the beginning of the month in Rio Grande do Sul state have caused rivers to burst their banks, leaving towns and parts of the bustling state capital Porto Alegre under water. Around two million people have been affected, more than 600,000 of whom were forced from their homes due to the disaster, which experts attribute to climate change and the El Nino weather phenomenon. (Photo by Anselmo Cunha / AFP)