India, Jan. 7 -- After US President Donald Trump questioned Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado's credibility as a potential future head of the Latin American nation, the Nobel Peace Prize winner said that "we are ready and willing to serve our people" and asserted she should be the country's next leader.

"The people of Venezuela have already chosen" who should take over the country's government now that Nicolas Maduro is out of power, said Machado in an interview with CBS News, just a little less than a week after the former Venezuelan President was captured by the US military during an operation in Caracas, along with his wife, Cilia Flores.

Machado, a former legislator, had won a primary race to run against Maduro in Ve...