He was arrested in 2021 during Cuba's largest anti-government protests in decades and spent five years in prison.
Otero Alcantara is part of the San Isidro Movement, which has long been the target of Cuban repression.
Prominent Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara flew to exile on Saturday in the United States after serving a five-year sentence on the island, as Washington urged Havana to release more than 700 political prisoners. Otero Alcantara, designated a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2022 for insulting national symbols, contempt and disturbing the public order. He landed in Miami, the capital of the Cuban diaspora, after a short...