José María Venegas better known as El Chema is a fictional character on the Telemundo television series El Señor de los Cielos, created by Luis Zelkowicz. The role was portrayed by Mauricio Ochmann from the last episode of the first season of the series in 2013 until the end of the third season in 2015. Ochmann resumed the character in 2016, in the spin-off that produced Telemundo entitled El Chema. After the announcement that Ochmann made about that he would not play the character again, the actor Alberto Guerra took up the character for the sixth season of El Señor de los Cielos.