"El Malo" (English: The Bad Guy) is the fifth single released from Aventura's fifth and final studio album The Last (2009).

[1] The single was released on March 11, 2010 and reached #1 on Tropical Airplay.

[2] At the time El Malo was released, the previous single by Aventura, Dile al Amor had dominated the charts in early 2010.

El Malo was later re-released in mid-2010 where it peaked #2 on the Latin Tropical Airplay chart twice on July 10 and July 24 where the #1 position was being held off by Juan Luis Guerra's Bachata en Fukuoka.

[3] The single finally reached #1 on the Latin Tropical Airplay on the week of August 28, 2010.