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Transgovernmental continuity
Earlier plans failed because they depended on political moments. The Chair is an academic institution with a decades-long horizon, shielded by long-duration agreements and PPPs.
Purpose
In five decades, Don Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo built Colombia's largest private business group from the conviction that technical rigor, financial discipline and the long term are superior to short-term politics. The Chair that bears his name takes that same conviction and places it at the service of the country: technical rigor to design well, financial discipline to execute without waste, and a long horizon — 25 years, 2050 — so as not to give up at the first difficulty.
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Regional articulation
Connects the public, private, academic and community sectors through biannual roundtables in each of the four core departments (Meta, Casanare, Vichada, Arauca).
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Tripartite synergy
Combines the capabilities of ECI (engineering and training), AECI (applied professional network) and OLCSA (strategic capacity and financial drive).
Central thesis
The Colombian Orinoquia today is what the Brazilian Cerrado was in 1970: a vast, demographically empty territory, agriculturally underexploited, with soil difficulties perfectly solvable by science. The difference between 1970 and now is that we have technology, capital and experience those Brazilians did not have. What is missing is sustained political decision, patient capital and an academic institutional anchor that transcends governments.
Reference document
Master Plan Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo Chair · CDAC Orinoquia 2026–2050 — an engineering, urban-planning and finance vision for the sustainable economic development of Colombia's last great frontier.
Document prepared by Luis Gonzalo Jiménez Rosales · Bogotá D.C., May 2026.