US Expels Venezuela Consul for Possible Involvement in Terrorism Against US
Terrorism? Hugo has some splainin’ to do…
MIAMI — The U.S. has ordered Venezuela’s Miami Consul General Livia Acosta Noguera to leave the country by January 10, according to the U.S. Department of State.
The Venezuela Embassy in Washington was told on January 6 that Acosta Noguera had been declared “persona non grata.”
The US State Department did not say why the Venezuela Consul was expelled, but many US Congressmen and women had expressed concern and called for action from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over Acosta Noguera’s possible involvement in terrorism against the United States.
‘It has recently come to our attention that Ms. Antonieta, assigned to the Venezuelan consul in Miami since March 2011, has been linked to a potential cyber attack on the United States involving affiliates of the Iranian, Cuban, and Venezuelan regimes,’ Congressman David Rivera (FL-25), Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-18), Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (FL-21) and Congressman Albio Sires (NJ-13) wrote to Secretary Clinton in December.
