Chavez said he decided the consulate will shut its doors in response to what he called an unfair action by the U.S. State Department.

"We're going to close it. It's OK. There won't be a consulate in Miami," Chavez said during his annual speech to the National Assembly.

Livia Acosta Noguera, Venezuela's consul general in Miami, was ordered out of the U.S. last weekend following an FBI investigation into allegations that she discussed a possible cyber-attack on the U.S. government while she was assigned to the Venezuelan Embassy in Mexico.