A celebrated Venezuelan composer who was the pride of his country’s government has turned against the nation’s leaders, telling President Nicolas Maduro: “Enough is enough.”

Gustavo Dudamel, 36-year-old conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, whose prodigious talent inspired Gael Garcia Bernal’s character in Mozart in the Jungle, has long been championed by Caracas politicians.

A proud product of El Sistema - Venezuela’s music education programme, which is funded and roundly praised by the country’s leaders – Mr Dudamel is a rock star among classical musicians.