Venezuela's Nobel peace prize laureate Maria Corina Machado is urging more pressure on strongman Nicolas Maduro to force him from power, according to an interview excerpt released Friday.

In the interview with CBS News talk show "Face the Nation," Machado -- who left Venezuela in a risky escape and was awarded the top prize in Oslo this week -- was asked about the possibility of US military intervention in her country.

"I will welcome more and more pressure so that Maduro understands that he has to go, that his time is over," Machado said.

President Donald Trump's administration has been piling pressure on Venezuela for months with a major naval buildup in the region that has been accompanied by strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats that have killed close to 90 people.

While she sa

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