The US really has no place lecturing Venezuela on the need for a recount.

[djean111]

4. So - the polls indicated Maduro should have won by a huge margin?

But - he won by a slim margin.
To me, this indicates a problem with the polls, in which case, no reason to question a slim margin, the polls don't matter.
But, again - if it was my election, and the polls pointed to a large margin, but I won with just a slender margin, I would be suspicious of the other side.
If the vote watching was as good as I have heard, why a recount?
And, once I heard that a box had fallen off a truck, on the way to being stored - why would I believe one side over the other in a recount?
Looks like almost all countries are fine with the election, just not the United States and the opposition party.