Rafael David Poleo Isava (born 19 September 1937) is a Venezuelan journalist and politician. He is the editor and proprietor of the newspaper El Nuevo País, which he founded in 1988, and of the political magazine Zeta (named for the 1969 film Z), which he founded in 1973. Previously he was the director of El Mundo (appointed by Miguel Ángel Capriles Ayala at the age of 23, c. 1960) director of RCTV's news division for six years, and the founding editor of Bloque De Armas' Diario 2001, launched in 1973. He was at one time a member of the Venezuelan Chamber of Deputies for Democratic Action, and was elected to the Venezuelan Senate in the 1998 election.