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 MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (AP) - Across the street from luxury summer retreats for wealthy Argentines, children run through smelly alleys of a slum and play soccer in dusty lots littered with trash and rubble.
Nearly 1,000 people live in this "villa," Argentine Spanish for a shantytown, but few are paying attention to this weekend's Summit of the Americas at an elegant oceanfront hotel a mile away.
The theme of the summit of 34 nations is jobs, but slum dwellers are not counting on those leaders to lift them from their misery. They say they have heard the promises for decades, but little has changed.
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