Machado told BBC Mundo her award was “like an injection” for her political movement.
“It infuses energy, hope, strength on the Venezuelan people because we realise that we are not alone,” she added. “The democrats around the world share our struggle.”
She said she thought Trump and the international community were already helping with the political situation in Venezuela.
“The regime in Venezuela is a criminal structure,” Machado told the BBC. “And as such, it sustains themselves on the criminal flows from their illicit activities.
“We need the international community to cut those flows that are not only used for corruption, but also for repression, violence and terror.
“So when you cut the inflows that come from drug trafficking, gold smuggling, arms smuggling, human trafficking, or the black market of oil, then the regime falls.
“And that’s exactly what we’re seeing, cracks that are getting deeper and deeper as we talk right now.”
Earlier this month, US forces killed four people in an attack on a boat off the coast of Venezuela that was allegedly trafficking drugs.
It was the latest in a number of recent strikes by the US on boats in international waters it said were involved in “narco-trafficking”.
They have attracted condemnation in countries including Venezuela and Colombia, with some international lawyers describing the strikes as a breach of international law.
On Thursday Colombian President Gustavo Petro said one of the boats was “Colombian with Colombian citizens inside”, an allegation the White House called “baseless”.
