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Revista Latinoamericana de Bioética

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WILCHES FLOREZ, Ángela María. BIOETHICAL ANALYSIS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF VR POTTER TO ÁLVARO URIBE SPEECHES ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF BIOFUELS IN COLOMBIA. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2013, vol.13, n.1, pp.112-119. ISSN 1657-4702.

In Colombia in recent decades has been implemented biofuel production as an alternative to fossil fuel use, it is intended that our country become one of the leading producers and for this the government has worked to the extent necessary to achieve it. One of the major promoters of the development of biofuels in Colombia has been the president Alvaro Uribe is why in this paper is an analysis from the perspective of bioethics Van Rensselaer Potter to expresident speeches, in order to elucidate if they are bioethical positions. For the development of the research methodology was used discourse analysis, finding once applied this, that speeches by Uribe Velez are bioethical positions, but also perceived contradictions about the management which gives the concept of nature.

Keywords : Biofuels; bioethics; discourse analysis; environment.

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