Ideas By Alejandro Puyana November 14, 2024 7:20 AM EST Alejandro Puyana is a Venezuelan writer living in Austin and received his MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. His story, “The Hands of Dirty Children,” was selected by Curtis Sittenfeld for Best American Short Stories 2020 and his debut novel, Freedom Is a Feast , is set in Chávez-era Venezuela and was published in August by Little, Brown. M uch has been said about who’s to blame—or who’s to thank,