She defeated Andrés Felipe Arias Leiva in the preliminaries, but was unable to gain momentum and was defeated by Juan Manuel Santos, and Antanas Mockus among others. Personal life Sanín was born on 6 June 1949 in Medellín, Antioquia to Jaime Sanín Echeverri and Noemí Posada Saldarriaga, their third child out of fifteen children. Her father was a hardline conservative writer, journalist and a vice-president of the Colombian Language Academy; her mother a teacher and housewife. She married young at the age of 19 to Diego Durán Cabal, and together they had one daughter, María Jimena. She divorced in 1975 and remarried to Mario Alberto Rubio Caicedo, a lawyer from Bogotá, but the marriage ended in 1999 leaving no children. References 1949 births Living people People from Medellín Pontifical Xavierian University alumni 20th-century Colombian lawyers Colombian women lawyers Colombian Conservative Party politicians Yes Colombia politicians Foreign ministers of Colombia Ministers of Communications of Colombia Ambassadors of Colombia to Venezuela Ambassadors of Colombia to Spain Ambassadors of Colombia to the United Kingdom Recipients of the Order of Isabella the Catholic Naturalised citizens of Spain Female foreign ministers Women government ministers of Colombia Colombian women ambassadors