Guatemala Insurance
I rode through Guatemala two years ago, spending 5 months in the country without insurance on my XT600. Every other country in Central & South America requires a SOAT (Seguros Obligatorio de Accidente Traffico), in English, "obligatory traffic accident insurance", usually purchased on the border but not always. You will be most unlikely to find any insurance outside of the country for Guatemala, and vehicles over a certain age can sometimes be difficult to insure as well, around 20 years seems to be a notional limit. In South America, the border people on entering Peru (from Ecuador) insisted we didn't need insurance, being tourists etc, and 100klms down the road, a cop stopped us and the first thing he demanded was the "SOAT y documentos", and it turns out, they have the legal right to confiscate your bike if you don't have it. That cost us a $90 bribe. My advice, buy local insurance wherever you can, the you have the papers to wave around, and it will wotk out cheaper than all the bribes you would end up paying.
As I'm in Guatemala now, and will be until the end of March, I will make inquiries for you after the weekend if you tell me the make & model, cc etc of your bike.
Hope this helps
Scott
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