Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado vows to return to Venezuela after Maduro's capture

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado on Monday said she will be returning to Venezuela as soon as possible, after President Nicolas Maduro’s capture.

She was awarded the prize for her fight against what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called a dictatorship.

Machado - widely seen now deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's most credible opponent- left Venezuela last month to travel to Norway to accept the award, and hasn't returned since.

"I'm planning to go as soon as possible back home," she told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview, when asked about her plans to return to Venezuela.

The interview was Machado's first since the U.S. launched strikes on Venezuela on Saturday and captured its president.

She welcomed the U.S. actions as "a huge step for humanity, for freedom and human dignity."

Production: Daniel Lim/Reuters