Mexican cultural critic, public commentator and scholar.
He wrote the first full-fledged biography on Nobel Award Winner for Literature Octavio Paz.
(Octavio Paz y su cÃrculo intellectual (2013), finalist XX Comillas Award for Biography and History, Barcelona, Spain.
Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Award Laureate, praised about Perales's book: "a mandatory reading for understanding the politics and culture of the last twenty years in the Americas of the twentieth century"