President Trump condemned the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela and said the U.S. would take further action should the government of Venezuela continue to impose authoritarian rule in the country.

“The socialist dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro has inflicted terrible misery and suffering on the good people of that country,” Trump said Monday at a dinner in honor of Latin American leaders. “His corrupt regime destroyed a thriving nation by imposing a failed ideology that has produced poverty and despair everywhere it has been tried.”