HUGO Chavez has left Venezuela divided with an economy overly reliant on oil wealth and riddled with corruption, world newspapers have warned, foreseeing great instability after his death.
Chavez's death from cancer at 58 leaves a complex legacy for his successor, with elections expected in 30 days, newspapers and online sites say.
Yet few papers could deny his huge political impact in Venezuela and across the Latin American region.
Some papers credited him for working to improve the lives of the poor, though the verdict on his performance was mixed.
Chavez stayed in power for 14 years, winning elections "with a mix of personal charisma, largesse in the use of oil money, populist rhetoric and an ability to convince many that their lives would be better thanks to the Bolivarian revolution," said Spain's leading daily El Pais.
Chavez's Bolivarian revolution, a socialist movement inspired by Venezuelan revolutionary leader Simon Bolivar, had promised economic independence and equality to the people.
"But it seems more than improbable that any successor will be able to stir enough support to make citizens tolerate for much longer the enormous financial imbalances, daily shortages, extensive corruption or rampant urban violence that afflict the Caribbean nation and that remain in place or are even worse after the late president's long reign," El Pais said.
A rival Spanish daily, the conservative El Mundo, said Chavez's death had sown "paranoia" among Venezuelan leaders.
Vice President Nicolas Maduro made clear he believed there had been a "political assassination", it said.
"Now begins an uncertain interim period," El Mundo warned.
Rory Carroll, Guardian correspondent and author of Comandante: Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times headlined: "In the end, an awful manager."
"Chavez was a brilliant politician and a disastrous ruler. He leaves Venezuela a ruin, and his death plunges its roughly 30 million citizens into profound uncertainty," Carroll wrote.
The Washington Post's lead article described Chavez as "passionate but polarising."
Some papers were more sympathetic, however.
Chavez's fierce anti-US rhetoric led him to fraternise with regimes such as those in Iran or Belarus, said the online edition of Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
"But the relationship between Latin America and the North was deeply changed by Caracas's repeated verbal attacks on Washington in recent years. Latin American states gained self-confidence," the paper said.
In Britain, the left-leaning Guardian said Chavez had left a legacy of literacy and healthcare for the poor but also "crumbling infrastructure and dependence on oil".
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