By Adry Torres For Dailymail.com
Published: 16:53 GMT, 1 March 2019 | Updated: 05:44 GMT, 2 March 2019
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President Nicólas Maduro's regime continues to prevent humanitarian aid from reaching its people by blocking off a bridge that connects Venezuela and Colombia.
The ruling socialist party dumped another shipping container on the Venezuelan side of the Simón Bolívar International Bridge early Thursday morning, adding to the two already there.
Video images show the moment workers operating a tractor fill up three storage containers with sand.
The containers were reportedly welded together to stop opposition and international groups removing them.
Colombian officials have raised concerns over the 300-meter long bridge, which was opened in 1962.
Embattled Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is still holding on to the presidency despite mounting pressure from the international community asking him to step down
A worker (pictured) stands on top of a shipping container while a tractor dumps sand into a container that was placed on the Venezuelan side of the Simón Bolívar International Bridge to block of potential humanitarian aid from entering Venezuela
The bridge once served as a primary trade route between the South American neighboring countries before Maduro shut it down to vehicles in 2015.
The sand-filled containers have added an additional 30 tons of dead weight to the Simón Bolívar International Bridge.
The Colombian government is afraid the structure that connects the city of Cúcuta with the Venezuelan state of Táchira could collapse, if Maduro and his regime don't
