Marcelino Perelló Valls

Marcelino Perelló Valls (1944 – 5 August 2017) was a figure of the

At the beginning of the movement, he was arrested on July 27 after the police raided the PCM’s semi-clandestine premises on Mérida street on July 26, 1968,[5] in Mexico City; he was released next day because his political connections.

After the Tlatelolco massacre, he hid in Europe the following year; he was in exile for 16 years.^[6] He was in France, Romania and Spain, and in 1975 he graduated in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest, and two years later he obtained a master's degree in Science from the same institution.

As a professor, he taught at the

At the time of his death, Marcelino Perelló was the Secretary General of the Museo Universitario del Chopo.^[8] He was also a contributor to the newspaper Excélsior.^[9] and a columnist and a writer.

Controversy

Perelló had a weekly radio show on Radio UNAM, called "Sentido contrario"^[10] (roughly translated as "The Wrong Direction"), that was cancelled after he made derisive comments in reference to the case of "The Porkys of Veracruz," a group of four men belonging to upper-class families who had allegedly gang raped a woman in Boca del Río, Veracruz in January 2015. Perelló made several derisive declarations including that the victim overreacted, that penetrating a woman against her will with "broomsticks, fingers or vibrators" is under current law not considered rape, but molestation or sexual abuse, and that some women could only achieve climax during rape.^[11][12]

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