India, Oct. 10 -- Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, made an unexpected mention of US President Donald Trump even as he thanked the people of Venezuela for winning the coveted award.

The mention of Trump, who was the topmost claimant of the peace prize, was made in two different social media posts by Maria Corina, even as she lauded the relations between the US and Venezuela.

Machado was blocked from running for president and thus challenging President Nicolas Maduro by Venezuela's courts. She has been in hiding in the country for the past year since authoritarian leftist President Nicolas Maduro won the elections.

In the first social media reaction, Machado said that her country...