Noemí Sanín
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Noemí Sanín Posada | |
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Belisario Betancur Cuartas | |
Preceded by | Antonio Abello Roca |
Succeeded by | Carlos Lemos Simmonds |
Personal details | |
Born | Marta Noemí del Espíritu Santo Sanín Posada 6 June 1949 Spanish |
Political party | Conservative |
Other political affiliations | Yes Colombia |
Spouses |
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Domestic partner | Javier Aguirre (2002–present) |
Children | María Jimena Durán Sanín |
Alma mater |
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Profession | Lawyer |
Marta Noemí del Espíritu Santo Sanín Posada (born 6 June 1949) is a Colombian-born politician and diplomat. She was the Conservative party candidate in the 2010 Colombian presidential election.
A lawyer from
Before running in 2010 as a Conservative, Sanín ran as an
Education
Sanín studied law at the
In 1998 Sanín moved to the United States and established herself in Boston, where she attended Harvard University as a Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Fellow.[2]
Political career
In 1976 Sanín was appointed as Vice President of Operations and Credit in the Corporación de Ahorro y Vivienda, (Colmena) (Savings and Housing Corporation) until 1979. She was later appointed President of this institution with only 30 years of age and became the first woman in Latin America to ever manage a financial corporation.[3] Her most notable achievements as President of Colmena was to have financed a large portion of the low-income sector of Colombia and expanded the national network of branches from 36 to 63 until the end of her terms in 1983. She also promoted a savings culture among the corporations' clients.[3]
Minister of Communications 1983
Sanín served as Minister of Communications between 1983 and 1986, appointed by President of Colombia, Belisario Betancur. Among her achievements as minister of Communications Sanín helped to develop Law 42 of 1985 which modernized Television in Colombia and legalized and organized the regional TV networks. She also helped in the approval and introductions of cable television. This law also modernized other telecommunication state owned companies such as Telecom, Caprecom and Audiovisuales.
Palace of Justice siege
On November 6, 1985 an urban commando of the
Peace negotiator in Casa Verde
President Betancur appointed Sanín as representative of the government in the first commission that visited Casa Verde, the then headquarters of the
Ambassador of Colombia in Venezuela 1990
Sanín served as Ambassador of Colombia to Venezuela between 1990 and 1991 appointed by then President of Colombia, César Gaviria. During her term as ambassador commerce exchange between Colombia and Venezuela increased from US$300 million to US$1350 million a year until the end of her job.
Minister of Foreign Affairs 1991
On 8 November 1991, President Gaviria reshuffled his cabinet and named Sanín
Ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom 1994
In 1994 Sanín was appointed consul of Colombia to the United Kingdom. Sanín promoted the visit of four ministers of Great Britain to Colombia and helped to negotiate new airline routes between the United Kingdom and Colombia. British investors and companies such as
Presidential candidate 1998
In the 1998 presidential elections, Sanín supported by her founded political movement
Presidential candidate 2002
In 2002, she ran again for president, this time as a member of her own movement, the Yes Colombia party. With national security overriding the other issues in the campaign, she did far worse than in 1998 and received only 5.8% of the vote. Part of her platform was to denounce Álvaro Uribe's ties with extreme right-wing paramilitary groups.
Ambassador of Colombia in Spain 2003
In 2003, Sanín became Colombia's Ambassador to Spain. She decided not to run for the 2006 Colombian presidential elections. As Colombian ambassador to Spain Sanín had to deal with the growing discrimination against Colombians in that country, issues related to illegal Colombian immigrants in Spain and the large number of Colombian citizens imprisoned in the European country. She also promoted numerous cultural exchanges and advocated on behalf of temporary work and technical and education training for Colombians in Spain. On November 19, 2007 President Uribe announced her transfer to the United Kingdom diplomatic mission, being replaced by the Vice President of Colombia, Francisco Santos.
Ambassador of Colombia in the United Kingdom 2007
On November 19, 2007, President
Presidential candidate 2010
In 2010, she ran again for president, this time as a member of the conservative party. 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[8] 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.[9] She married young at the age of 19 to Diego Durán Cabal, and together they had one daughter, María Jimena.[10] She divorced in 1975 and remarried to Mario Alberto Rubio Caicedo, a lawyer from Bogotá, but the marriage ended in 1999 leaving no children.[9][11]
References
- ^ (in Spanish) Colombialink.com: Noemi Sanin
- Harvard Gazette. 2000-09-21.
- ^ a b Colombia.com: Colombian elections of 2002 - Noemí Sanín
- ^ (in Spanish) Radio Santafe: 22 years ago the palace of justice holocaust
- ^ "Gaviria Integra Gabinete de Concenso" [Gaviria Integrates Consensus Cabinet]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 1991-11-09. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
- ^ "¿Quiénes son los candidatos?" [Who are the candidates?]. BBC Mundo (in Spanish). 2002-05-18. Retrieved 2010-10-29.
- ^ Colombiasupport.net
- ^ "Noemí Sanín [Profile]". RCN Radio (in Spanish). Retrieved 2010-10-29.
- ^ a b Cortés Castillo, Carlos (2010-04-11). "Noemí, la política diplomática" [Noemí, The Diplomatic Politician]. La Silla Vacía (in Spanish). Retrieved 2010-10-29.
- ISSN 0798-3522. Retrieved 2010-10-29.
- ^ "Noemí Sanín, Una Feminista Tradicional" [Noemí Sanín, A Traditionalist Feminist]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 1998-05-17. Retrieved 2010-10-29.