Outside the United Nations in New York, Venezuelan exiles gathered to contest the presence of interim President Delcy Rodriguez at the General Assembly, a woman who assumed power following the US military capture of Nicolas Maduro in January. Their protest was not merely against a person, but against a principle: that the removal of one leader does not automatically bestow legitimacy upon the next. In the long human struggle over who has the right to speak for a people, these exiles reminded the world that power seized or inherited under extraordinary circumstances must still answer to the que