Perseguidos, also known as El Capo, is a Mexican telenovela produced by Horacio Díaz Morales for Imagen Televisión together with TeleMéxico Studios. It is a remake of the Colombian series, El Capo. It stars Mauricio Islas as the titular character.
Plot
The series presents José Vicente Solís Armenta, a delinquent who is prosecuted by the state, tried and condemned to the maximum penalty for crimes against humanity. By being betrayed, the authorities finally manage to track him down and want him dead or alive. Solis Armenta, as he escapes, has to deal with his wife whom he deceived, one of his lovers who seeks to assassinate him and a bodyguard who seems to succumb to his charms.
Cast
Main
Mauricio Islas as José Vicente Solís Armenta / El Capo
Irán Castillo as Sofía Cáseres
Marisol del Olmo as María Guadalupe Luján Flores
Sara Maldonado as La Perris
Miguel Rodarte as Pancho Solís Armenta
Gerardo Taracena as Gustavo Benítez / Tavo
Roberto Mateos as Hernán Molina
Alejandro de la Madrid as Uribe
Claudio Lafarga as Sergio Machado / Checo
Recurring
Mauricio Rousselon as Juan José "Jay" Solís
Isabel Burr as Camila Solís
Guillermo Quintanilla as General Payró
Verónica Merchant as Irene
Gustavo Sánchez Parra as Coronel Avilés
Julio Bracho as Señor H
Valentina Acosta as Connie
Javier Díaz Dueñas as General Segovia
Mimi Morales as Valeria Buenrostro
Pablo Cruz Guerrero as Emiliano
Ariane Pellicer as Doña Esperanza Armenta
Eduardo Arroyuelo as Agente Barrales
Mario Loría as Teniente Monroe
Ricardo Polanco as Eduardo Solís Armenta
Melissa Barrera as Laura Solis
Problems and broadcast
The premiere of the series was scheduled for October 31, 2016. However, El Capo quickly came under a firestorm of criticism. The presidents of the Radio and Television Commissions in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies wrote a letter asking the RTC, Mexico's broadcast content regulator, and the Federal Telecommunications Institute to take action against Imagen Televisión, which aired the novela, for broadcasting a "narcoseries". The network may have feared that the program would receive a D rating from the RTC, in which case it could not air before midnight; days before the planned October 31 premiere, the title was changed to Perseguidos (Pursued) for its run on Imagen.
The series was broadcast from November 7, 2016 until January 27, 2017. In the United States the series premiered on April 4, 2017 in the timeslot of 10pm/9c with its original name, "El Capo". Due to the low rating of the series, Telemundo changed the schedule of the series to 8pm/7c.
U.S. broadcast
The following is a list of episodes with titles and release dates in the United States, the ratings are also shown.