El Chema

El Chema is an American crime television series premiered on Telemundo on December 6, 2016, and concluded on April 3, 2017. The series is produced by Argos Comunicación and Telemundo Studios for Telemundo. Starred and produced by Mauricio Ochmann. It is a spin-off of the series El Señor de los Cielos.

The first season consists of 84 episodes, and is available on Netflix as of July 1, 2017.

Synopsis
The first season tells the story of how Chema Venegas (Mauricio Ochmann) got his start in organized crime and rose through the ranks to become the head of the cartel he runs in "El Señor de los Cielos." El Chema began breaking the law at a young age, transporting marijuana across the US-Mexican border when he was just a boy. Little by little, he worked his way up to become a successful and skillful leader, earning his place through bloodshed and brutality, in the history of drug trafficking. Since he was a young man, El Chema has been one of the most important public enemies of both the U.S and Mexican governments.

Main

 * Mauricio Ochmann as El Chema
 * Mariana Seoane as María Isabel "Mabel" Castaño
 * Julio Bracho as Don Ricardo Almenar Paiva
 * Sergio Basañez as Don Tobías Clark
 * Itatí Cantoral as Doña Blanca

Also main

 * Arcelia Ramírez as Doña Elvira Mendivil
 * Leonardo Daniel as Don Alfredo "Feyo" Aguilera
 * Fernando Noriega as Eutimio "Rojo" Flores
 * Alexandra de la Mora as Inés Clark
 * Francisco de la O as Gary Roberts
 * Carla Carrillo as Amanda Almenar
 * Gustavo Egelhaaf as Saúl Clark
 * Jorge Luis Vázquez as Fabricio Ponce
 * Alberto Casanova as Coronel Israel Centeno
 * Guillermo Quintanilla as Don Isidro Robles
 * Ari Brickman as Jeremy Andrews
 * Pablo Bracho as Don Joaquín Venegas
 * Fernando Solórzano as Don Óscar Cadena
 * Sebastián Caicedo as El Tostado Yepes / Eleazar Yepes
 * Luis Yeverino as Benito Narváez
 * Hiromi Hayakawa as Lucy Li
 * Julieta Grajales as Regina Campo
 * Jorge Cárdenas as Carlos Rodríguez "El Pelusa"
 * Pilar Fernández as Martha
 * Adrián Rubio as Freddy Torres
 * Daniel Rascón as El Toro
 * Alexander Holtmann as Leslie Carroll
 * Juan Ignacio Aranda as Ramiro Silva de la Garza
 * Hector Molina as Morillo Juárez
 * Carlos Balderrama as José Manuel Castillo "Manny"
 * Pedro Giunti as Agente López
 * Iñaki Goci as El Triste
 * Mauricio Rousselon as Ernesto
 * Adolfo Madera as Agente Trejo
 * Dale Carley as Jones

Recurring

 * Karla Carrillo as Salma Vidal
 * Luis Gerónimo Abreu as Nelson Martínez "El Veneco"

Special guest stars

 * Rodrigo Abed as César Silva de la Garza
 * Bianca Calderón as Roxana Mondragón
 * Marco Pérez as Guadalupe Robles
 * Anai Urrego as Lorelay "Lay" Cadena
 * Carmen Aub as Rutila Casillas
 * Carlos Puente as Pompeyo
 * Rafael Amaya as Aurelio Casillas
 * Jesús Moré as Omar Terán
 * Lambda García as Nerio Pereira
 * Isela Vega as Celia
 * Luisa Huertas as Nelly
 * Plutarco Haza as Dalvio Navarrete / El Ingeniero
 * Jorge Luis Moreno as Víctor Casillas Jr.
 * Lorena del Castillo as Oficial Evelyn García
 * Iván Tamayo as Jorge Elías Salazar
 * Vanessa Villela as Emiliana Contreras
 * Juan Ríos Cantú as General Daniel Jimenez Arroyo / El Letrudo
 * Javier Díaz Dueñas as Don Anacleto "Cleto" Letrán
 * Claudia La Gatta as Alina Martínez
 * Fernanda Castillo as Mónica Robles
 * Wendy de los Cobos as Aguasanta "Tata" Guerra
 * Iván Arana as Ismael Casillas Guerra
 * Alejandro López as El Super Javi
 * Rossana Nájera as Auristela Durán
 * Scarlet Gruber as Young Blanca
 * Alejandro Speitzer as Young Ricardo Almenar Paiva

Production
The original series is based on the fictional character and is not related to the life of Chapo Guzmán.

Telemundo confirmed on May 15, 2016 that the series would see a spinoff based upon actor Mauricio Ochmann's character 'El Chema'. On September 21, 2016, Telemundo confirmed that production officially started. Telemundo would release exclusive web videos on November 15, 2016 explaining the title character's backstory including tying in the title character's last appearance in El Señor de los Cielos to the start of the events of the spinoff.

Actress and music artist Mariana Seoane also participates in the series as "Mabel", and composed songs for the series. Itatí Cantoral also confirmed her participation in the series as a villain, Cantoral and Seoane are more recognized for work for Televisa.