BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu visited a Citgo refinery in southwestern Louisiana on Thursday to highlight her success in stalling a bill to impose sanctions against human-rights abusers in Venezuela’s government.

While the Democratic senator has been criticized as siding with Venezuelan leaders who have committed horrific abuses, she says she’s protecting 2,000 Louisiana jobs at the refinery, which imports oil from the country.