[3] At a young age the family moved to Bogotá, and she attended the New Granada School where she finished her primary education and then attended the Marymount School where she finished her secondary education, and afterwards travel to France where she studied journalism at the École Française des Attachés de Presse in Paris.

[5] After college, Puyana worked for the French magazine Elle, for Christian Dior, and for the UNESCO Press Corps.

[9] Living through Colombian armed conflict, Puyana had to endure the tragedy that beset her family during the wave of kidnappings in Colombia during the late 1980s, the whole of the 1990s, and early 2000s.

On 18 January 1988 her husband, who was running to become mayor of Bogotá, was kidnapped in Antioquia by the Medellín Cartel in an effort to put pressure on the Government and prevent the extradition of Pablo Escobar and other drug lords to the United States; he was finally released a week later.

[10] His body was found on 2 April 1993 buried on a farm in the outskirts of the town of Victoria, Caldas and it was determined he had been killed a year earlier by his captors.