The seventh season of the American television series El Señor de los Cielos was confirmed by Telemundo in May 2018. It premiered on 14 October 2019, and ended on 31 January 2020.
The season stars Matías Novoa, Carmen Aub, Iván Arana, and Isabella Castillo as Casillas' dynasty. Along to Robinson Díaz, Guy Ecker, and Ninel Conde. And the inclusion of Danna García in the cast as main, and the promotion of Eduardo Santamarina as part of the main cast. Unlike the previous season, Lisa Owen, Alberto Guerra, Alejandro López, Fernando Noriega and Roberto Escobar were removed from the main cast and Rafael Amaya only appears as a special guest stars.
Plot
In season seven, to avoid falling into the hands of the American Justice, Amado Leal "El Águila Azul", now Amado Casillas (Matías Novoa), has turned himself in to Bernardo Castillo (José Sedek), Secretary of Security of Mexico. The DEA commissioner, Joe Navarro (Guy Ecker), has made every attempt to achieve his extradition. What he does not know is that Baltazar Ojeda (Eduardo Santamarina), a CIA Agent, has the plan to eliminate Amado before, since he is the only one who can prove that within the organization in which both worked together, there is a scheme of corruption and murky management that endangers its existence within it and its freedom. He has already been transferred to a jail on the outskirts of the State of Mexico and is about to be taken to the airport, under strict security measures when the Casillas cartel tries to rescue him and Baltazar Ojeda himself tries to kill him. In the midst of this tension and in parallel, under the supervision of Doña Alba (Lisa Owen) and a specialized doctor, they try a risky procedure to revive Aurelio (Rafael Amaya).
Episodes
Cast and characters
Main
Matías Novoa as Amado Casillas "El Águila Azul" Carmen Aub as Rutila Casillas Iván Arana as Ismael Casillas Isabella Castillo as Diana Ahumada Robinson Díaz as Miltón Jiménez "El Cabo" / Pío José Valdivia Eduardo Santamarina as Balthazar Ojeda Guy Ecker as Joe Navarro Danna García as Violeta Estrella Ninel Conde as Evelina López
Recurring
Lisa Owen as Alba Casillas
Manuel Landeta as Cecilio Guiterrez
Alberto Guerra as El Chema
Alejandro López as El Súper Javi
Nacho Fresneda as Renzo Volpi
Fernando Noriega as Eutemio Flores "El Rojo" Julián Román as Joaquín Estrella Thali García as Berenice Ahumada Dayana Garroz as Ámbar Maldonado Alan Slim as Jaime Ernesto Rosales Claudia Lobo as Esther Alosian Vivancos as Dylan Gutiérrez "Dj Dylan" Marisela Berti as Edith Guzmán Daniel Martínez as Guillermo Colón José Sedek as Bernardo Castillo Roberto Escobar as Comandante José Valdés Athina Klioum as Athina Coraima Torres as Rita Peña Elsy Reyes as Carla Uzcátegui Mabel Moreno as Alejandra Camila Jurado as Ángela Karla Carrillo as Corina Saldaña / Salma Vidal Karen Sandoval as Laura Denia Agalianou as Dalila Zuc Leonardo Álvarez as Leonardo Castaño Daniel Martínez Campos as Arístides Istúriz Renata Manterola as Luzma Casillas David Ponce as José Manrique "Skinny" Carlos Puente as Pompeyo Fernando Banda as El Vitaminas Daniel Rascón as El Toro Antonio López Torres as El Pulque Alejandro Navarrete as El Zopilote Alex Walerstein as Paul "El Greñas" Alejandro Félix as Chatarrero Carlos Balderrama as José Manuel Castillo "Manny" Rubén Arciniegas as Samario Gabriel Bonilla as Isidro Casillas Yannis Spaliaras as Nikos Christina Sotiriou as Irene Plutarco Haza as Dalvio Navarrete "El Ingeniero" Lupita Jones as Amaranta Reyes
Guest stars
Rafael Amaya as Aurelio Casillas
Reception
The series premiered on 14 October 2019 with a total of 1.99 million viewers and 1.1 million viewers adults 18–49 years. Surpassing El Dragón: Return of a Warrior of Univision and becoming the most watched program during the year in Telemundo, only above La Reina del Sur, despite having had a successful premiere; the series failed to reach two million viewers as in past seasons. After actor Rafael Amaya left of the series, the audience began to decrease markedly in each episode, before this, several followers of the series threatened Telemundo with stop watching the series.
Production
On 10 May 2018, Telemundo announced that the series has been renewed for a seventh season. The production of the season began on 27 May 2019 in Mexico, and concluded in September 2019. The season is produced by Argos Comunicación for Telemundo Global Studios, and it was recorded entirely in Mexico, and some places in Greece.