# Yasmani Fonseca Estrada: Cuban from Camagüey who moves cars with his mouth

**Date:** 01/11/2020

He is not a regular at gyms or weightlifting, nor does he have prominent biceps… So where does Yasmani Fonseca Estrada get his strength from, a young man from Camagüey visiting Santiago, who can pull heavy cars with a rope in his mouth, as if it were a minor effort.

His story began almost 10 years ago, in the Havana bakery Neptuno 8. That day a tray fell on one of his knees, and due to the sharp pain he clung with his mouth to a sack full of flour that was nearby. From one side to the other they saw him move more than 110 pounds, and the amazement was so great that his coworkers did nothing but run away.

    "I realized that this is a unique gift, and I wish another person would appear so we could compete and do more things." Yasmani says now from one of the rooms of the newspaper Sierra Maestra. "From that moment on, the same people told me that I had to do jaw exercises, run, but… no way, this was already enough!".

"Since I was a child it was hard for me to eat, I did it very quickly and without chewing. I even ate the rubber from the bottle nipple. It was a difficult childhood, because I was very hyperactive; but then I realized that from then on I was already developing that gift.

"I started with cars using a Willy, then came a Lada, a truck, even a Transgaviota minibus with 12 passengers inside," explains this young man barely one meter and 54 centimeters tall, who assures he has not suffered physical damage as a result of this ability. His teeth appear to be impeccable.

"What you do is supernatural," that's what the doctors who have seen him so far have told him—mostly psychologists—, although Yasmani (who is not mentally disturbed) remains a mystery to many. He confesses that he doesn't have a defined diet, and he avoids eating fatty foods. Vegetables are usual for him.

This young man—who made headlines in the newspaper Juventud Rebelde in 2014—overflows with optimism, and leaves not a few skeptics with the desire to know how far he will be able to go. Now he thinks about developing his muscle mass a bit more to be able to move, with his singular jaw, a train car, a crop-dusting plane, and perhaps even an airplane.

Then there are his arms. One day, already in Santiago, he discovered that they began to become robust, "I felt as if there were 10 more arms, it seemed strange to me. And it was in Garzón, around 18 Plantas, where I tried to convince a minibus driver to let me pull it." He did it, according to what he says now.

There are not a few in the world who dare to do these things, some break records and appear on television programs to show unusual talents, but Yasmani, apart from the glimmer of fame and major news media, tries to make himself known in this hospitable city, which is why he dreams of holding an exhibition on one of our streets, with the help of the territory's authorities.

In a small fried food stand, where he takes advantage of his stay in Santiago, he can be seen every day with admirable humility, that supernatural man who learned to move cars with his mouth.