Patricia Poleo (born 8 November 1965, Caracas)[1] is a Venezuelan journalist and the winner of the King of Spain Journalism Award for her investigation into the whereabouts of Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori's right-hand man, Vladimiro Montesinos.

She is the daughter of the journalist Rafael Poleo, wife of the former student leader Nixon Moreno, a political scientist graduated from the University of the Andes, and former director of her father's newspaper, El Nuevo País.

In this investigation, Patricia Poleo denounced that Montesinos was offered protection by security forces linked to the government of President Hugo Chávez during the time he remained hidden in Venezuelan territory.

[5] On the basis the testimony, warrants were issued for the arrest of Patricia Poleo, banker Nelson Mezerhane, retired general Eugenio Áñez Núñez and Salvador Romaní, as the "intellectual authors" of the assassination.

[10] On 31 January 2002, the headquarters of the journal Así es la noticia (This is the news) was attacked with an explosive tossed by two persons on a motorcycle, a day after she published a video about conversations between the Venezuelan Army and the Colombian guerrilla FARC along with the director of the newspaper, Ibéyise Pacheco, and journalists Marta Colomina, and Marianella Salazar.