sentences:  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.