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Rafael Correa - Ecuador
An economist by trade prior to being sworn in as the president of Ecuador in January of 2007, Correa earned a doctoral degree stateside at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His heartland alma mater hasn't prevented him from taking potshots at the United States: following Hugo Chavez's description of George W. Bush as "the devil," Correa cracked that the comparison was unflattering to Beelzebub. Although he hasn't embraced the full Bolivarism of Chavez, Correa calls himself a "XXI Century Socialist" and has criticized Ecuador's free trade agreements with the United States and pledged to kick out the 400 American soldiers stationed at a U.S. military base in Manta. In a bold stroke guaranteed to strike fear into the secretive hearts of American authorities, Correa plans on cooperating with UFO-watchers to investigate several sightings of unidentified flying objects.
Chances of becoming BFFs with the U.S.'s leaders: When puercos fly and Red Staters stop getting abducted by UFOs and probed.  

Evo Morales - Bolivia
Raised in a tiny hovel with a straw-thatched roof in the Bolivian highlands, Morales has placed himself in opposition to American interests since his most formative forays into politics-he was the head of a union for coca farmers (that's where cocaine comes from, Young Jeezy). His penchant for rabblerousing resulted in repeated arrests and a serious beating in 1989 at the hands of Bolivia's rural anti-drug police force. As the leader of Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), an indigenous political party that embraces the nationalization of industry, Morales became president following elections in 2005. His distaste for American influence in Bolivia is unvarnished; Morales has called the U.S. imperialism the "worst enemy of humanity" and describes the Free Trade Area of the Americas as "legalized colonization." Morales has a sense of humor too: in addition to a rocking haircut resembling that of murderous Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men, he became the second world leader to appear on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show in September of last year.
Chances of becoming BFFs with the U.S.'s leaders: When cocaine is sold over the counter at Rite Aid. 

Hugo Chavez-Venezuela
Since being elected Venezuela's president in 1998 on a platform of left-wing socialism, the career military officer has gleefully become the United States' most formidable nemesis in the Western Hemisphere. Thanks to his country's oil reserves--a trove of black gold that places Venezuela among the top five oil-exporting nations in the world and supplies roughly 12 percent of the United States' yearly consumption--Chavez arguably possesses more international clout than any South-of-the-Border foe since Fidel Castro during the Cuban Missile Crisis. And you best believe Hugo knows it; a frequent critic of the United States and its president, he turned a 2006 speech at the United Nations into a media frenzy when he referred to Bush as "the devil" and joked that the podium still smelled of sulfur from the American leader's earlier speech. Besides talking greasy, Chavez also severed military relations between Venezuela and the U.S., formed the pointedly-titled "Axis of Good" with fellow leftists in Cuba and Bolivia, and delivered a charitable thumb-in-the-eye by giving deeply-discounted heating fuel to households in impoverished New York City neighborhoods. The acrimony goes both ways: Chavez has accused the U.S. of being complicit in a failed 2002 coup attempt and supporting the PDVSA strike which temporarily shuttered the nation's oil industry in the same year.
Chances of becoming BFFs with the U.S.'s leaders: When sand becomes the world's fuel and Simon Bolivar returns to life to unite all Latin American countries.