MIAMI – The United States has ordered the expulsion of Venezuela’s consul general in Miami after allegations surfaced that she discussed possible cyber-attacks on U.S. soil while she was stationed at her country’s embassy in Mexico.

The State Department said it declared the diplomat, Livia Acosta Noguera, persona non grata and had given her until Tuesday to leave the country.

The Venezuelan government was notified of the decision Friday, giving Acosta 72 hours to depart under standard diplomatic procedure, department spokesman Mark Toner said.

Her expulsion had been disclosed hours earlier by Roger Noriega, a former U.S. undersecretary of state for the Western Hemisphere, through his Twitter account.

The decision to expel Acosta was made a month after Spanish-language Univision Network aired a documentary about Iran’s alleged terrorist activities in Latin America, including a segment in which Acosta apparently asks an alleged Mexican cyber-pirate to give her the access codes to nuclear facilities in the United States.

On the program, the alleged cyber-pirate says he provided the secret codes and the location of each of the U.S. nuclear plants to Iran, and a voice attributed to Acosta is heard to say: “You should also give me that … to send it to the president, or rather the chief of defense; the chief of presidential security is my friend.”

The recording was apparently made when Acosta worked as cultural attache at the Venezuelan embassy in Mexico, but documents obtained by El Nuevo Herald indicate she performed other functions there.

According to the documents, Acosta and Vice Consul Edgard Gonzalez Belandria, who was in charge of issuing passports at the Miami consulate, were registered in the savings bank of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service, indications that they are on that agency’s payroll.

The automated service of the savings bank, which can be accessed by entering the user’s identity card, shows the amounts both officials have accumulated as employees of the intelligence service.

Press reports published in Venezuela indicate that Acosta might have left the United States in late December, but there are no indications whether she later returned to Miami. Acosta’s whereabouts were unknown. The Venezuelan consulate was closed Sunday.

Venezuela’s embassy in Washington said any statement about Acosta’s expulsion would come from Caracas.