Driving without at least the mandatory liability insurance means you run three main risks.
Sometimes you won't get into a country without the insurance policy to show them - and the fact that it is not available at the border is your problem. Catch a bus, go and get insurance and come back and pick up your car.
Then you run the gauntlet of police patrols who sometimes do check that you have it. They consider gringos trying to evade their social responsibility as a good source of easy pocket money.
And finally if you have an accident and don't have insurance, then provided the locals don't tear you apart, you will get to enjoy the fantastic hospitality of the local prisons, sometimes for months.
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