The Venezuelan journalist and author, Miguel Otero Silva (MOS 1908–1985) has written a variety of crónicas making use of irony, humor and sarcasm to portray the Venezuelan society in the 1940s. This chapter scrutinizes several Crónicas Morrocoyunas, published in Un morrocoy en el infierno (1981) (A Morrocoy in hell) where the reader is given a realistic view of the injustices endured by the Venezuelan people at the hand of several consecutive dictators. As samples of literary journalism, these crónicas reveal true facts and real plights, authentic stories about ordinary people, along with the author’s penetrating subjectivity. MOS uses satire, irony, sarcasm and humor to cast political and social criticism on the cultural values, beliefs and attitudes not just of the Venezuelan society but of all Latin America. The impact of these crónicas echoes in later literary works and their recurrent themes.