Red Sox coach Alex Cora will not visit White House due to Puerto Rico policies
- Boston to meet Donald Trump after World Series win last year
- Cora unhappy with response to Hurricane Maria devastation
The Boston Red Sox manager, Alex Cora, will not be with his team on Thursday when they visit the White House to celebrate their victory in last year’s World Series.
El Nuevo Dia said Cora has declined the invitation because Puerto Rico, where he was born, continues to struggle to recover from Hurricane Maria, which hit the island in September 2017. Last year, Cora criticized Donald Trump for his tweets downplaying the number of Puerto Ricans who died as a result of the natural disaster. Trump has also blamed the slow recovery on elected officials in Puerto Rico, taking particular aim at San Juan mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz by calling her “crazed and incompetent.”