CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro warned on Thursday that a deal with the political opposition for elections to be held later this year was in danger of collapse, after what he has described as “conspiracies” against him. WHY IT MATTERS Last year, the government of Maduro’s ruling socialists reached a deal with the political opposition over talks in Barbados to hold elections sometime during the second half of this year. The deal caused the United States to temporarily ease economically debilitating oil sanctions on the crude-exporting country. U.S. officials stressed tha…