(Octavio Paz y su círculo 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" He earned his PhD in literature and cultural studies from Georgetown University, and a master's degree in International Relations from the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
He worked for 12 years at the Organization of American States in the fields of Democracy and Humanitarian Security.
As lecturer, he taught at the Foreign Service Institute (FSI), the school for U.S. diplomatic personnel based in Rosslyn V.A, at Georgetown University in Washington D.C, and ITAM in Mexico, City.
He was a recipient of the Fulbright Program, The British Council Award Scholarship and the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología CONACYT