Why do we even try to make friends with this guy?

For a long time now, I've been wondering why we try to make friends and support Hugo Chavez and his communist regime. He took over Venezuela and changed it's constitution so that he can stay in his position indefinately. That pretty much what Castro did in the 1950's. Now he wants to kill capitalism in the whole world. He says it's the enemy. What he's trying to say is that he wants a country full of slaves to his will. Chavez is becoming an enemy that cannot be ignored. Chavez made his comments about killing capitalism here. 

Now Chavez is making threats against the U.S. Over his government owned news network, he said that there was a U.S. spy plane that "violated Venezuela's airspace" and that he will shoot down any other that does.

Here's the problem. We have a lot of U.S. military activity in the area due to the drug war. U.S. planes are bound to get close at some points in time. And they don't intend to spy. Chavez is just taking pot shots at us to try to provoke a violent response. Why does Obama even try to make friends with this guy? He's even insulting Obama himself. This a dangerous guy, and we need to keep an eye on him, not make friends with him.