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Marcelino Perelló Valls (born 1944 in Mexico City) was a leader of the Mexican Student Movement of 1968, and the representative of the School of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to the National Strike Council (CNH). Perelló has been a member of the Mexican Communist Party (PCM) since 1965.
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, in Mexico City; he was released next day.
After the Tlatelolco massacre, he was in exile in Europe the following year; he was in exile for 16 years. 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 of Science from the same institution.
As a professor, he taught at the University of Barcelona from 1977 to 1985; at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa from 1985 to 1986, and at the Autonomous University of Puebla, from 1987 to 1988. He has been a professor at the School of Sciences of the UNAM, since 1990, where he once was a Physics student. During his student participation at the UNAM, he was a representative at the Consejo Nacional de Huelga, and part of the top leadership during Mexico 68's movement.
Marcelino Perelló is currently the Secretary General for the Museo Universitario del Chopo. He is a collaborator for the newspaper Excélsior. and he is a columnist and a writer. Perelló has a weekly radio show on Radio UNAM, called "En sentido contrario" ("In Opposite Direction").