( CNN ) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday that he has decided to close the country 's consulate in Miami after the United States expelled a Venezuelan diplomat in the same city . Officials in his administration had recommended closing the consulate , Chavez said . `` So we 'll close it . There wo n't be a consulate in Miami , '' the president told lawmakers during his annual address to the National Assembly . `` What we will do is an administrative closing while we study the situation , '' he said . The president called the U.S. decision to expel Livia Acosta Noguera , who headed Venezuela 's consulate in Miami since March , `` unfair '' and immoral . '' She had simply been doing her job , he said . Acosta was declared persona non grata and told to leave the United States , a State Department spokesman said this week . He declined to comment on specific details behind the move . Last month , a group of American lawmakers said they had `` grave concerns '' about Acosta . They called for an investigation after the Spanish-language TV channel Univision aired a documentary alleging that she was among a group of Venezuelan and Iranian diplomats who expressed interest in an offer from a group of Mexican hackers to infiltrate the websites of the White House , the FBI , the Pentagon and U.S. nuclear plants . The evidence that the plot was real , according to Univision , includes secret recordings with diplomats who ask about what the hackers can do and promise to send information to their governments . Univision interviewed a purported Mexican whistle-blower , a student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico named Juan Carlos Munoz Ledo . The student told Univision he was recruited by a leftist professor who wanted to wage cyberattacks on the United States and its allies . Munoz told Univision he secretly recorded a meeting in 2008 with Acosta , who was then the cultural attache of the Venezuelan Embassy in Mexico . According to a recording Univision aired as part of its report , Acosta is heard saying that she can send the information gathered by the hackers straight to Chavez . The Venezuelan president has called the report `` lies . ''
NEW : This means the product will ship as received by the manufacturer, sealed, with all advertised components, and with the manufacturer warranty. He calls for an `` administrative closing '' of the consulate in Miami . The move follows the U.S. decision to expel Acosta , consul general in Miami . Last month , a group of American lawmakers called for an investigation of the diplomat .